7 World Trade Center

After the 911 incident, I haven't heard any news about the Twin Towers of World Trade Center for quite some time. The last memory was watching the memorial ceremony on the 1st anniversary, how people mourned about the lost loved ones.

Suddenly, I bumped into this tiny square of news on the Metro yesteray that 7 World Trade Center (the first of a series of buildings on the site of the Twin Towers) was about to open next Tuesday.

Ever since the 911 incident, I had this impression that the Twin Towers resembled the Tower of Babble, "touching the sky" and boastful of human achievement; a monument of pride to the Americans. And the Americans also feels like those living in Jericho, a city that had been strong and seemingly invincible.

Both imageries pointed to the human desire to play the role of God Himself. Something that might seem very desirable to the Americans.

Having worked in the biggest bank in US for over 10 years, I found that the average American is very complacent, very self centred, and thought the world of themselves.

Everywhere outside of the US seems to be wilderness and undeveloped. Everybody who cannot speak English is illiterate and uncivilized. The rules and regulations in US are the best in the world. Their technology is the best, and no application is worth the slightest consideration if developed by people outside the US.

US was built by the protestants, a people of God. Its National Anthem is in fact a hymn, a war song of the Army of Jehovah.

But nowadays, the Americans have effectively shattered the family system, allowing people to divorce. They defy the 10 Commandments such as killing by allowing aborption, and seeing ex-marital affairs simply commonplace.

They have basically removed the Christian faith in every aspect of their life, not even allowing children to pray in school.

What is freedom after all, if it is not confined in the boundaries of righteousness?
It would be nothing but sin itself.

Of course, there are nice people in the US, but unfortunately that's the impression I have from working in this company for this long.

And being a devoted Christian in US would be extremely difficult, I believe, because you are not allowed to even stand up against homosexuality, which God hates so much.

Well, God has doomed the city of Jericho to ruins for ever and ever. And whoever wants to rebuild it would lose his sons. I genuinely pray that it would not be the same for those who have been or will be building on the ruins of the Twin Towers.

This is a lesson we must all learn. We are not God, and God treasures those who are humble, and see himself/herself just as he/she is.

I do pray that the Americans can return to God, and be humble again at His feet.