God will not fall

As summit began last week, the speaker, Miles Welch, talked about how everything will fall, but God never will.

Just think of how many times this truth is displayed on a daily basis. Every nation, no matter how great, falls. Every person, no matter how wise, falls. But God never falls. How awesome to be reminded of this amidst the chaos of our world.

The speaker had recently been on a mission trip in Liberia and had witnessed first-hand how civil war had torn that country apart. He showed us pictures of the thousands of bullet casings that littered the ground in the town that he had been visiting. A local man told him about the times when the rebels came through the town with the motto, " one less or no more". They would leave you will one less limb or kill you. During one of the attacks, the rebels opened fire inside a church and killed every one of the worshippers. After telling this story, the local man proceeded to take something from his pocket.

A tiny cross. Cut from one of the thousands of bullet casings that had littered the floor of that church. He said that it was his reminder that nations may fall in utter chaos, but God will never fall and he will not let go of those who love him.

He had not made just one cross, but thousands. Miles was so touched that he asked him for 3,000 of these tiny crosses to give to each of us at IWU. Somehow, God allowed him to bring them through the intense scrutiny of customs and security.

I, along with the thousands of other IWU students, now have a tiny cross cut from a bullet casing that the rebels in Liberia used as an instument of war.
What they used for destruction, God is using for good.

He never falls.