Remembering the Fallen

Good morning on this Memorial Day! So, question for the day: As we live in Christ in today, are we doing wrong to remember those who have fallen in the past? Well, let's see; do we remember Jesus daily, reading His words and those He inspired in long dead writers? Do we recall those words spoken by our Lord in John 15:13: "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends." Yes, we most certainly do well to remember those who laid down their lives in the service of country, friends, loved ones, and freedom.

To forget those who made the ultimate sacrifice is to dishonor the one who made His sacrifice to free us from the law of sin and death. To throw away their sacrifice via forgetfulness, thoughtlessness, or idleness is to dishonor their lives, those who loved them, and the One who died to save them from sin. We have a duty to the fallen to remember and to use that sacrifice well. At any moment in time, we may disagree with the office of the President, or the current Congress, or even what the Supreme Court decides. We may disagree with that government on whether our military should be in a far country at all for the reasons stated in the press release. But this is not the day for political argument. Today, those who sacrificed their lives in the service of our nation are honored. We do well as we remember them in prayer, honor, parade, and ceremony.

One day each year is set aside for a people as one to remember the fallen with gratitude, to honor the sacrifice of a life, and to hold dear that most precious thing another gave up for this nation. That day is Memorial Day, and this year it lives in us today. Have a wonderful day as you remember those who sacrificed all.

Love,
Bucky