Human Beings-who needs them??

Human Beings? Who needs them?

955 dead; 2,436 injured; 56,885 houses destroyed!

It all happened as the result of a couple of air raids by Hitler’s Luftwaffe in 1941. Crumlin road Presbyterian Church http://presbyterianireland.org/congregations/crumlinroad.htmlwas one of a number of building destroyed in North Belfast. At a time when the collective memory is taken back to VE and VJ Day we are reminded of the pain caused by National Socialism but carried out by ordinary men and women just like us.

On the other hand this time of extreme violence was a time for heroes and community spirit. There was the story of Lance Corporal Gordon Cowell of the 5th Royal West Kent Regiment. On the 5th August 1941 he, along with Sergeant William Chick rescued the pilot of a spitfire which had crash landed in minefield.
Without any regard for themselves they headed towards the minefield. People were standing by the railings, shouting, 'Don't go in there, you'll get blown up,' but the only thought they had was to reach the stricken pilot and get him out. They reached the smouldering plane, and after a struggle with the pilot's straps, got him out of the cockpit. The soldiers could see his leg was badly injured. They carried him back over the minefield and when they got back to the railings, the Spitfire blew up. Each one of us is capable of being heroes one day and villains the next

In a recent edition of the London Times Dr Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi in the UK, said that

“God does not want us to cease to be human, for if He did, He would not have created us”

Jesus is the complete man, the second Adam who was at peace with His heavenly father and with men. Becoming a better human being means becoming more like Jesus.

Human beings? Who needs them? We do, when they are like Christ. After all Jesus was a man. Hitler destroyed our church and all our records and he butchered many millions of people but he did not, he could not, destroy the work of Jesus Christ.

“Just as one person did it wrong and got us in all this trouble with sin, another person did it right and got us out of it”