CAN YOU GUESS WHAT THIS IS?

 Have you got any idea what's is this photograph?  If you didn't know any better, you would think this was nothing more than a warehouse filled with meaningless scrap metal ready to be shredded and melted down for recycling.  I guarantee, none of these metal beams will be tossed aside as worthless scrap!  Why?  Because they are far from meaningless.  These beams are the remains of the Twin Towers which were destroyed by terrorists in 2001.  They are being held in this warehouse until they are claimed by towns and cities all around the country.  One by one they will be ceremoniously draped in the American Flag and delivered to sites throughout the land where they will become the center-pieces of memorials and tributes to those who died that fateful day.  Some will be escorted by police and fire fighters in uniform.  Some will arrive in grand style through parades and solemn motorcades.  Once they were the frame of a mighty building.  Soon they will become symbols of the faith of a mighty nation and people!  For hundreds of years people will gather in city squares and small town parks to see the memorials created by these metal beams.  They will offer a prayer as they remember the dead and give thanks for the heroes who saved lives.
Years ago another common, seemingly meaningless material took on new meaning and  changed the lives of people forever.  Two normal, simple beams of wood were fashioned together in the form of a cross.  The pattern was known to all as a means of execution.  Once the cross served it's deadly deed, it was most likely dismantled and discarded; simple scrap.  But one cross in particular changed all that.  It held the King of Kings; the very Son of God.  Because of that cross and the sacrificial love Jesus displayed there, the cross has become the most powerful symbol of faith, hope and love the world has ever known!  Anyone who understands what happened there and who receives the love offered there is never the same!
I hope everyone reading this one day gets to see some of the scrap metal in this photo.   I hope one of those pieces comes to my town.  But regardless of whether you get to see one of those memorials, I hope all of you, now or in the future, will see and understand the power of the Cross!
Nothing or no one can ever bring it down!


Till next time...
Stuart