Memorial Day

Today is Memorial Day. The day we remember all who have gone before us and paid the ultimate price to help keep this country free. This is part of one of the stanzas of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"-

"As He died to make men holy 

Let us die to make men free 

While God is marching on."

He who died to make us holy is Jesus Christ. Why did He die? Because someone had to pay the price to allow us a chance to be reconciled to a Holy God. After all, "The wages of sin is death"-Romans 6:23a, so He substituted Himself in our place and took upon Himself all our sins, died for us, and our sin debt was "Paid In Full". That by Him, we could be reconciled to the One True Holy God, by Jesus Christ's righteousness imputed to us, when we believed upon Him.

"Let us die to make men free" is emulating what Jesus Christ did for us. He said in John 15:13-"No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends." All those men and women, in those graves, died for their country because they thought it was worth it to keep their friends and countrymen free. And not only our military, but also our men and women police officers, firemen, paramedics, so many of whom gave their lives on 9-11, which, almost 17 years later, has been forgotten by part of the population, who don't seem to know what this day is for or that our 1st responders do more than just be targets for ignorant people.

Freedom ALWAYS comes with a price and the freedoms you enjoy today were given by God Almighty and have been protected by people who think more of God, country, family, and friends than their own lives. This Memorial Day, take time to remember what people, who you have never met, have done for you. Remember that their ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, because they died for their friends and countrymen, just like Jesus Christ died for His friends, everyone of us, so that we could be freed from the power of Satan, Sin, and Death. That is true freedom, and it came by the shedding of blood.

"I'll stand on the Absolute Truth, the Word of God, and leave the relative truth to worldly people"