While all Veterans have given a ‘portion’ of their life in the service of their country, in battle many have actually given their life.
“By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.” (1 John 3:16 ESV)
1 comment:
Gail;
-----Using again the great analogy you gave to us Friday, many good lives have been torn asunder and collected into His basket of purpose. And many more will be. I soundly believe that the prophecy of His Word has both specific and general fulfillment. Although I do not know who the one now restraining the man of lawlessness specifically is (II Thes 2:3-8), I am sure that throughout the twentieth century it generally has been our great country. At the time the seed of the lawless one germinated in the anti-God, progressive philosophies of collectivism, the seed of faith and commitment was being germinated in the Scriptural philosophies of our Founding Fathers. The saplings of these two germinated seeds began to bear fruits into the inevitable clashing of war by the opening of the twentieth century. Most of the world was buying the idea that man was ready to put technology to the task of building an eternal utopia. God was dead. Now man could help himself to a glorious future if only the last constraints of religion were thrown off and all individuals subjected themselves instead to the ultimate authority of human governance.
-----So pervasive was this delusion that even God’s blessed America became deeply infected by the anti-Christ germ. Joseph Goebels studied Woodrow Wilson’s propaganda techniques and applied them with even sharper purpose for the definition of Nazi Germany. Henry Ford was enamored with Adolf Hitler, who admired him likewise; Mussolini was so revered worldwide as to be given the affectionate nickname “Il Deuce”; much of America looked at Josef Stalin with hopeful mystic. H.G. Wells said FDR was, “the most effective transmitting instrument possible for the coming of the new world order.” (Liberal Fascism, J. Goldberg, pg.135.) FDR’s own interior secretary warned him that the public was becoming “increasingly inclined to unconsciously group four names: Hitler, Stalin, Moussolini, and Roosevelt.” (Ibid. Pg. 122.) The allure of individual submission for the subservience of a supreme human governance was shaping the social mind of the Western World.
-----With the inevitable scuttling of God it required, hatred filled the hearts of man. Hitler served to history the Holocaust amid the incredible death and destruction of a world war for his chance to lead mankind. Stalin starved and killed 25 million of his own people for his chance. Mao Zedong thought 15 million lives of his own were worth less than what he presumed the world needed. Yet, amidst the American stupor with the same foolishness there still beat a heart having more commitment to the Lord and the Holy Word than what this evil could overcome. In WW I, WW II, Korea, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Pakistan the lives of Americans have been invested in fighting back this philosophy of owning your fellow man for your political power. Memorial Day was instituted to remember each installment of this investment.
-----But we move forward now with even greater need to realize that the wars fought abroad were only the first theatres of the war we must continue to fight at home. For those who believe towards their own ends God is dead and human governance is supreme yet infest our entertainment, libraries, schools, court benches, legislative halls, and administrative offices. The evil of their authoritarian threat looms as high and treacherous as does that of the Taliban and Al‘ Qeada. Their sabotage and subterfuge of the peaceful, free lives we hope to live remain as destructive as road side bombs and as enticing as was the first lie spoken in The Garden. Hopefully, many Memorial Days to come will have free people gratefully acknowledging at our gravesides the little contributions each of us can make to overcome this evil yet within. To them we owe this duty of love.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
Post a Comment