Danger!

The people on the bridge made no conscious decision to embrace danger or to put their lives on the line.

Experience and reason have trained us all to trust what looks solid and stable -- and that bridge looked solid and stable... up until it fell.

In this age of technological marvels and engineering achievements we expect buildings to stay on the ground, airplanes to stay in the air, and bridges to stay in place.

The sudden and catastrophic collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis -- just as rush hour was coming to a close -- challenges some of our most comforting assumptions.

We drive across bridges, enter tall skyscrapers, board commercial aircraft, and perform any number of daily tasks as if there was no danger involved in the equation.

We have come to trust architects and engineers to do their jobs and we place a great deal of confidence in inspectors, standards, and testing. Those driving across that bridge on Wednesday evening had every reason to give the bridge itself little thought . . . until it fell.

(Albert Mohler

President, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, www.crosswalk.com)

The other danger alluded to is our complacency when it comes to the work of the enemy of our souls.

The devil.

In prayer last night, I had this thought come...

I don't like the way the devil thinks he has control.

I cried out, "Lord, make a difference!"

"Show Yourself mighty!"

We act so nonchalant when it comes to the work of the evil one.

He is killing, stealing, destroying!

Didn't Jesus come to destroy as well?

Destroy the work of the enemy.