Memorial Day 2010
Today as you light the grill for the annual cookout during your extended weekend, take a moment and say a prayer for those who made this day possible. As you share your time with family, there are others wishing for one more day with a family member. There will be wives and husbands wishing for one more day with their spouse. Children will ask for parents who will not return. Parents will long for their children who are gone. Memorial Day should hold a special place in our lives as we appreciate our freedom paid for by the sacrifice of others so we might live in a land of the free and home of the brave.
The courageousness of thousands are marked with white stones reminding us of their life in honor of this country. The markers are the cost of the freedom you and I live in each in this land. Each marker displays the name of a life given so you and I can possess the opportunity of freedom each day. Thousands of other names are engraved on a solid wall paying tribute to those who lost their lives in a foreign land. There will be more memorials as war takes the lives of good men and women.
Not only should the men and women which have passed be honored, but those who have fought and lived should be honored as well. Those living live with the memories of their own platoons, friends and neighbors who never made it back from a foreign land. Their minds are solemn on this day as they seek to find peace, knowing the price of freedom will be respected and honored.
Let us not forget the sacrifice, let us not forget the people, let us not forget the purpose.
As Christians, this day might hold a double honor as we pay tribute and respect to the men and women of this physical life as well as those of spiritual sacrifice. Physical war takes an unknown toll on the lives of soldiers, families and countries and spiritual has an everlasting toll that will be known in a land which knows no day and no night.
It has been said thousands of times but it is important we remember it each day, “Freedom is not free.” The price for our physical freedom is the countless lives of men and woman fighting a physical war, but the ultimate price is the cost of the only Son of God in a spiritual war. In a world where physical wars seem to never end, one day the spiritual war will end. When the spiritual war ends, there will be rewards and punishments, but the fact is, the Bible already tells who will win. Whose side will you be on?
Let us not forget the price of freedom in our land, but let us definitely not forget the price paid for our spiritual redemption!
Just some Memorial Day thoughts,
Chris
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Great thoughts bro. Thank you for sharing them!