Today, September 11, 2020, we remember this catastrophic history of “stark evil” against innocent people in New York that reverberated worldwide for its horrific intensity, death and destruction.

The September 11 attacks (often referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda^[3][4][5] against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks resulted in 2,977 fatalities, over 25,000 injuries, and substantial long-term health consequences, in addition to at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage. 9/11 is the single deadliest terrorist attack in human history and the single deadliest incident for firefighters and law enforcement officers in the history of the United States, with 343 and 72 killed, respectively.

From this vicious historical event one can deduce the following 2 incontrovertible facts:

1. There is evil that resides in the “mind”( aka, spirit-of-man). What made these people commit this murder and destruction? Any evil for that matter, what makes it act out? It comes down to what “their mind was taught” all their lives to muster strength and determination to plan and execute. We are all a “product” of our education that provides a composite that makes us who we are. The obvious solution is to “change what was taught” to that “mind”. That “mind” is the “spirit-of-man”, aka, “breath-of-life”, the “real you”, that made man a “living being”. But, how could this “spirit-of-man” (mind) change?

The “good news” is, there is only one way this can be achieved and that solution has been known from the foundation of the world. And that, is the realization that man, on his own, has “weak flesh “, and needs a “helper or advocate” for empowerment.

Everything that leads to action has to have “energy/power”. The modern use of “energy” “dates from around the middle of the nineteenth century, when it was beginning to be realised that the power that drove many different processes could be explained by the concept of energy being transferred from one system and form to another.”

No action happens without energy/power. Before one moves any muscle, a series of action within the process is activated. Chemical, neural, mechanical energies are as real as energies classified as electrical, solar, wind, nuclear, etc. These empower material things to take action, like motor vehicles, light bulbs, wireless networks and the like. But, spiritual things can only be empowered by “spirit-energy/power”.

This “helper/advocate” was promised to be given to resurrected Jesus for us to receive subsequently from him as a gift. This is the energy that empowers and provides strength, guidance, direction, etc. to make the correct decision of choosing good over evil and act on it.

This “energy/power” was given 1st to the apostles then at Pentecost. This will help us to be “one” with the Father as “man-Jesus” has proven as a “trailblazer, captain of our salvation”. The essence of the “gospel” is predicated on our “ongoing creation”.

2. Life is like a vapor that is gone in a snap. Whether by accident, disease, natural disaster, drive-by shootings, foreign/domestic terrorism, warsor whatever, death is an ever present risk that lurks at the corner, haunting us constantly. Because we are mortals, all of us are “appointed to die once and afterwards undergo judgment”.

As “life is fleeting”, the focus should be in “life after”, the “legacy that lasts”. And, this “destiny” has been planned from the beginning of time. The “time has come” and the kingdom of God is at hand.

God bless👍🙏😇

Original post hyperlink version: September 11, 2020

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