Memorials

Memorials

Colossians 1:19-20

Today is Memorial Day.  This is a day when we honor the military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. Truly, we are forever grateful for those who sacrificed so much to gain and preserve America’s freedom.

A few years ago, I preached a sermon where I showed pictures of war memorials, some famous and some lesser known.  I then shifted that focus to the one memorial that should mean the most to us as believers, the cross.

The cross is the ultimate place of sacrifice for us.  It is a place where a sinless man paid for the sins of the world.  This man is Jesus, God’s Son.

Jesus willingly bore the pain and agony of the cross to reconcile us to God.

According to Isaiah 53:10, Jesus’ suffering and death pleased God.  This sounds awful, but God’s pleasure is explained by the fact that His Son’s suffering will save many.

On this Memorial Day, let us be thankful for those who gave their lives to make and keep us free.

But let us not forget the cross.  As Paul wrote in Colossians 1:19-20, “For God was pleased to have His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile everything to himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.”



In Christ,

Jonathan
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