This Day 9/11 Will Always Be Marked By The Same Image. The Twin Towers Of New York Burning, Smoke Spiralling Into The Clear Blue Sky Over Manhattan, And The World As We Know It Is About To Change Forever. Today Is Painfully Significant For Another Reason As Well: It Was A Year And Six Months Ago Today That The World Health Organization Officially Declared COVID-19 A Pandemic.
Christians Face A Great Apocalyptic Challenge Of The Coronavirus Pandemic As Do All Others. It Is Indeed A Spiritual Challenge That Draws Us Closer To The Lord, Love One Another And Demonstrate Love To The World. This Is Also Time To Serve Others Sacrificially. Let Us Explore Creative Ways To Give Hope, Share Essentials And Shine Bright In Such Times Of Darkness And Death. 
Then I Acknowledged My Sin To You And Did Not Cover Up My Iniquity. I Said, "I Will Confess My Transgressions To The LORD." And You Forgave The Guilt Of My Sin. Psalm 32:5 But With You There Is Forgiveness, So That We Can, With Reverence, Serve You. Psalm 130:4
Although He Was A Son, Jesus Learned Obedience From What He Suffered And, Once Made Perfect, Jesus Became The Source Of Eternal Salvation For All Who Obey Him And Was Designated By God To Be High Priest In The Order Of Melchizedek. Hebrews 5:7-10
Those who want to succeed in life, set their priorities aright. It is worth noting in this passage here some priorities listed are for our practical application. We are already into the first month of the New Year 2021. But it's never too late to re-organise our priorities to make your life worth-living.
“I had been extremely miserable in adolescence, miserable from its very onset, and as I prayed to You [God] for the gift of chastity I even pleaded, ‘Grant me chastity and self-control, but please not yet.’ I was afraid that You might hear me immediately and heal me forthwith of the morbid lust which I was more anxious to satisfy than to snuff out.”(The Confessions 1997, Book 8, paragraph 17)
When we are unthankful we magnify the actions, activities and circumstances produced by other people for or against us, and weigh our lives based on their responses, which inadvertently saps our faith in God! When we are God-focused we see the providential activity of God behind every circumstance, even as Joseph did when the word of the Lord tested him when his brothers sold him as a slave in Egypt.
Everybody likes ‘new beginnings’, fresh starts! Having said that, I also believe in continuity and faith-fulness to the task at hand or, in the way I sign off my letters – ‘Pressing On’. There is much value in ‘positive, forward thinking’. I understand the Greek god Janus, from whom we get the name for the month January, has two faces. One looks backward with a frown, and the other ahead with a confident smile.
A scientist who was studying astronomy and space science was overwhelmed by its vastness, variety, design, movements, energy, balance and perfectness. He thought that there cannot be any single person who could design such a thing, sustain or protect such a vast space. Then, he concluded it is impossible for any ‘God’ to create such a thing.