I have been thinking a lot about our troops. As a veteran myself, I get teary eyed when I watch video clips about service men and women surprising their loved ones by coming home early, for good or maybe a furlough. I am not sure who said it first but one person wrote that an individual who joined the service basically wrote a blank check to the United States of America. The amount of the check would be determined by their willingness to serve even to the tune of their very life.
These fine folks decided that it was more important to fight for our very freedoms than it was to settle for second best or some other country’s values or lack thereof. For some of us we owe our very lives for their service whether home or abroad. For all of us we owe our very freedom to those that have served.
As we are approaching our “Independence Day” we need to pay tribute to those that have fought for the very freedom we enjoy. We can do this by not taking this freedom for granted. So many have died for this country and for the Constitution of our United States, we need to remember that our country was founded on Christian principals. If it weren’t so we would not have the words “One Nation under God…” in our Pledge of Allegiance. If this offends some of you then I feel for you. Our removing God and His Son from public places has offended God, and that should bother all of us. For us to dishonor or rebuke the Constitution is to tell our troops that we don’t care about what they do, that what they do is in vain. It also tells our For Fathers that we no longer agree with what they did or fought for.
Our service here is to exalt the Living God, to tell the good news of His Son and, yes, it is time to show that our service people have not served in vain. 1 Peter 2:20 “For what credit is it if when you are chastened for your sin, that you take it patiently? But when you do well and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God.”
It is time for our country to return to God and praise Him for the great servicemen and women that have fought to keep our country safe and to give us the freedom we enjoy.
May God Bless our Troops and our Country…
Bro John 501-262-0015
