Daily Butter 9/11: Powerless

My little addition to Our Daily Bread (9/11/11):

But I trust in You, LORD;

    I say, "You are my God."

    The course of my life is in Your power;

(Psalm 31:14-15a HCSB)
 

On this tenth anniversary of that day that changed America forever, I spent some time looking back over some of the images and listened to interviews of some who were in New York that fateful day. Powerlessness is probably the best summery I have of the thoughts and emotions that came to my remembrance. Whether it was images of the smoking towers in NYC, news reports about plane crashes at the Pentagon and in PA, or the expressions of numbness on the face of everyone I met also trying to just go through their day ten years ago, it was as though we were all deflated with no power to move or change the course of events.

David captured the truth in verse 15, our lives are in His power. The truth is the truth whether you believe it or not, and as much as we desire to control our own destiny there remains so much in our lives over which we are powerless. But since I know my God and His love for me, I can share in David’s expression of faith in verse 14. What can be a foreboding place of powerlessness becomes full of hope in His powerful presence.

- Andy