I have a question regarding the new Crane in its Vigilance sculpture recently unveiled at the new Kirkland [Justice Center]. The crane with the stone in its claw is a very nice symbol and I’m sure the sculpture is a very fine piece of artwork, but how many people are aware of the true source of our protection and security? Our lives depend on the answer to that question.
It has been written, “Unless the lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest eating the bread of anxious toil, for He gives to his beloved sleep.” It has also been written, “do not put your trust in men, no, not even in princes.”
Truth matters. Knowing the truth can make the difference between life and death and the truth is that Jesus is our only hope. Jesus is the only one who can solve the problem of sin and the evil that comes from it.
The police and the courts can do so little to stem the tidal wave of darkness, violence and evil that is now sweeping over this world. According to news reports of the New Years Eve attacks on women in Cologne, Germany, there were 1,000 or more criminals and 200 police officers. According to one police officer, officers’ orders were ignored, they were pelted with lighted fire crackers and glass bottles and if an officer tried to speak with one of the miscreants, he was immediately surrounded and menaced by several of the miscreant’s buddies.
Please do not be fooled into thinking that things like this can only happen to other people in other parts of the world. Sin is universal and the only reason that America has been so relatively free of this kind of evil is because of our Judeo/Christian heritage and culture. But that is rapidly disappearing and we are becoming so much more vulnerable.
Police do not just have a tough job. They have an impossible job. Only with God’s power, wisdom and guidance can they even hope to do it. They need our prayers. Every person in Kirkland who believes in the one true God should pray daily for God’s blessing and protection upon our Kirkland police officers, that he would guide them to do their jobs according to his will and that he would so restrain sin and evil in our city that their lives and spirits would not be in so much danger.
It has been written, “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”
Jane Peterson, Kirkland
