Blasts on God's Trumpet
Johann Christoph Arnold
To me, the two greatest catastrophes in recent American memory?
September 11, 2001, and Hurricane Katrina?are blasts on God?s trumpet,
calling us to practice what we preach. In both cases, the devastation was
unprecedented. But God could only have allowed them to happen because
he wanted to give us another chance to follow him?and not in words, but
in deeds.
Here is a chance to show that we really do want to belong to him; that we
really
do love our neighbors as ourselves and are willing to lay down our lives
for our
friends. Are we ready for the challenge? I hope so.
After 9/11, we said we would never let things go back to normal. In a way,
they
haven?t. But for most of us, daily life has gone on as usual. That became
clear
in the wake of Katrina. Our first concern, judging by the headlines, was
how
the hurricane had affected oil production and other commodities. Only
after that
did we begin to address the tremendous need of half a million shattered
lives.
None of us knows when God will call us from this world. But we ought to
seriously
consider that it could happen at any time. This should increase our sense
of urgency,
so that we make use of every hour.
Read on...
http://www.bruderhof.com/articles/jca/Gods-Trumpet.htm
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