A Freedom Worth Remembering!

A Freedom, worth Remembering!

In the coming days, many of us are going to celebrate “Memorial Day”. For most people it is just some much needed time off from the busy work schedule,

For others, it’s being able to attend or watch the greatest spectacle in motor racing, known as the Indy. 500

It is a day, that the true meaning of, is mostly overlooked and sometimes forgotten.

Memorial Day is not the unofficial start of summer. It’s a time to remember those who gave their lives, so we can enjoy all the freedoms, they fought so hard for.

While we remember and honor the fallen soldiers, I would like to say thank you to all who have served to make this land Free! From the supportive spouses, to their children, brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers!

They were all hero’s, because they were all willing to lay it on the line for the cause, for the love of their country and fellow man.

TBS. in John 15:13 NKJ.

13. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.

Some 1,200,000 men and men or there about, have given their life fighting for the price of Americas Freedom.

Those brave and sometimes also scared individuals died, fighting for something they believed in, something they thought was bigger then they were, they paid the ultimate price for our freedom.

There were countless millions of others, who paid a great price also, some were wounded physically, some were wounded mentally, all have paid...and continue to pay a great price and deserve, to be acknowledged and remembered!

Just like for our freedom a high price was paid, our spiritual freedom came at a great cost too.

Many men and women willingly gave their all so we could enjoy the goodness of God and all the benefits He freely gives us today.

The common denominator they all possessed was their faith in and love for God!

Heb.11:1-3 MSG.

1-2.The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living. It's our handle on what we can't see. The act of faith is what distinguished our ancestors, set them above the crowd.

3. By faith, we see the world called into existence by God's word, what we see created by what we don't see.

4. By an act of faith, Abel brought a better sacrifice to God than Cain. It was what he believed, not what he brought, that made the difference. That's what God noticed and approved as righteous. After all these centuries, that belief continues to catch our notice.

5-6. By an act of faith, Enoch skipped death completely. "They looked all over and couldn't find him because God had taken him." We know on the basis of reliable testimony that before he was taken "he pleased God."

It's impossible to please God apart from faith. And why? Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him.

7. By faith, Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. He was warned about something he couldn't see, and acted on what he was told. The result? His family was saved. His act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world. As a result, Noah became intimate with God.

13-16. Each one of these people of faith died not yet having in hand what was promised, but still believing. How did they do it? They saw it way off in the distance, waved their greeting, and accepted the fact that they were transients in this world. People who live this way make it plain that they are looking for their true home. If they were homesick for the old country, they could have gone back any time they wanted. But they were after a far better country than that—heaven country. You can see why God is so proud of them, and has a City waiting for them.

32-38. I could go on and on, but I've run out of time. There are so many more— Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, the prophets....

(all who were tremendous men of faith)

Through acts of faith, they toppled kingdoms, made justice work, took the promises for themselves. They were protected from lions, fires, and sword thrusts, turned disadvantage to advantage, won battles, routed alien armies. Women received their loved ones back from the dead. There were those who, under torture, refused to give in and go free, preferring something better: resurrection. Others braved abuse and whips, and, yes, chains and dungeons. We have stories of those who were stoned, sawed in two, murdered in cold blood; stories of vagrants wandering the earth in animal skins, homeless, friendless, powerless—the world didn't deserve them!—making their way as best they could on the cruel edges of the world.