The Dark Side

While in Berlin on a missions trip to pass out 25,000 tracts to a darkened city, our group toured downtown Berlin. We went down to Checkpoint Charlie where the city was divided in four between the US, Britian, France, and Russia. A line two bricks wide, marks the spot where the Berlin wall stood dividing the city and families for years. A sector of the wall remains as a memorial, and it stands on a historic spot marking the roots that grew such a devisive wall. On one side stands tall with cold marble the headquarters of the German air force. Underneath, the foundations of the Nazi Secret Service headquarters remain and sit as a visible and terrible reminder of the horrors it created. Large white posters describe the events that once occured within these brick ruins, stories of torture, false trials, and deportation. In the picture you can see the brick and the posters. This was a touching and realistic display. I appreciated how close you could get to this display and how untouched it still was, letting us see the original foundations. I think this display speaks volumes, how such an evil organization sprouted the air force building just a few feet from it and the Berlin Wall above it's foundations. The trees now growing above and the new company which occupies the air force building display how the righteous will one day triumph. How the righteous man will look for the enemy who'd spread itself like a luxuriant tree and find him no more.

So in this sense the city stands as a silent testimony how evil will fall one day and Christ will triumph in the battle between the dark side and the light.