I Remember

 I remember the horror.   I remember the pain.  I remember what I was doing as I am sure you all do.  Trying to steal a glimpse of TV while putting patients in a room. Hearing their own stories through the day.  Many with sons and daughters that were there.  Awaiting anxiously to hear a report.  I remember their anguish as our countrys leader reached out to a hurting nation.  And I remember this great nation responding with the only thing that would heal!  Our Savior Lord Jesus.  We called upon him as a nation, as a family, as individuals.  He heard our cries, our prayers.  We reached out to our neighbors no matter where they were.  The one down the street, the one across the country.  We felt their pain as they lost loved ones when the towers crumbled.  We felt their relief when their loved ones were found in the rubble.  We felt sorrow, we felt disbelief.  Then we began to feel hate.  We felt bitterness and yes we wanted revenge.  But then we felt Jesus!  And as hard as it is for us to turn things over to him- We must.  For our nation to survive, our families, and we as individuals- we must turn IT- everything- over to Christ.  We have to replace all those feelings with Love.  Let him heal as his love washes over our souls.
Psalm 42:5, 7, 8
Why are you downcast, O My soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet Praise Him, My Savior My God
Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers have swept over me
By day the Lord directs his love,
at night his song is with me- a prayer
to the God of my life.
Psalm 43 1
Vindicate me, O God and plead my cause against
ungodly nation; rescue me from deceitful and wicked men
Psalm 44 2-3
With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our fathers;
You crushed the peoples and made our fathers flourish
It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm
bring them victory it was your right hand your arm
and the light of your face for you loved them.
Psalm 44:8
In God we make our boast all day long and we will praise your name!
We have the Blessed Assurance that our Lord and Savior will stand by us.  We just have to seek His face.
Deuteronomy 31:6
He will never leave you nor forsake you!