In my office building in downtown Manhattan, in downtown Manhattan, from one of the large corner conference rooms on the floor where I work, there used to be a clear view of the Twin Towers.On the morning of September 11th, 2001, after the planes hit the World Trade Center, from that conference room, we witnessed those towers in flames. They were still standing, but the damage inflicted by the plunging aircraft was evident. Then, within an hour, these buildings that once seemed to be permanently etched into the Manhattan skyline were no longer visible to us.

For those of my generation growing up in New York, we had always taken the World Trade Center's existence for granted. It was one of the places where you took friends visiting from out of town, but not just to see the view from the observation deck. On the ground floor of one of the towers you could buy discounted tickets to Broadway shows. In the plaza between the buildings there were often performances during lunchtime. There was a shopping mall in the basement, and our friends from New Jersey met us in Manhattan by taking the PATH train to the World Trade Center stop. And in the matter of a few hours that morning, it was all gone. The unthinkable became the unavoidable reality witnessed from the window of that conference room.

Despite being partially numbed from watching the continuous coverage of the morning's events on television, we were all still shaken. Later that day, as we joined the ranks of thousands forced to walk uptown through the still-fresh soot and smoke to get home, the enormity of what had occurred began to sink in.

In the days since this occurred, it has been a natural response of many to question other things long taken for granted. In a world where it seems like there is nothing we can rely on or believe in, it is easy to despair. After everything that has happened, what can we still depend on and trust? In confronting the reality of everything that has happened, our own fears and frailties are exposed. So many who died were those who spent their lives getting a good education, pursuing a professional career, even building a family. Yet none of these things was able to save them.

Is there nothing on which we can depend?

The Bible asks us in Romans 8:35, "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or anguish or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?" The response comes in Romans 8:38-39, "For I am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor things present nor things to come nor powers Nor height nor depth nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Do you want to meet the one Person on whom you can depend, Whose love on which you can rely no matter what? God wants you to know Him. Just pray this prayer below,