Here is a great truth in the bible that reminds me of memorial day.

Joshua 4:2-9 (New International Version)

2 “Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe, 3 and tell them to take up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan from right where the priests stood and to carry them over with you and put them down at the place where you stay tonight.”

 4 So Joshua called together the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe, 5 and said to them, “Go over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, 6 to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’ 7 tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever.”

 8 So the Israelites did as Joshua commanded them. They took twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, as the LORD had told Joshua; and they carried them over with them to their camp, where they put them down. 9 Joshua set up the twelve stones that had been [a] in the middle of the Jordan at the spot where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant had stood. And they are there to this day.

Memorial Day has traditionally been a day of remembering the many heroes who lost their lives during wars in which the United States has been involved.   This is also a great day to pause and pray for those currently serving in Iraq. 

 

This verses above I believe is also a key reminder of how we should stop and remember want God have done in this great nation and how bless we are in our lives.  

Do you like me have days when I am angry, mad or just plain forget who God is.  As I read the verses over again I am remind that we are like the people from the bible who went though many mixed trails and troubles.

Did you know are like sheep like the book of Isaiah 53:6 tells us

 6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
       each of us has turned to his own way;
       and the LORD has laid on him
       the iniquity of us all.

We have all struggled with the things in life that brings us down. And turn our eyes off God.   But I have good news .  This like Joshua told them we should build up memorial stones in our lives the reminds of how God brought us out of unbelievable sensations in our lives. 

This memorial day don’t just remember our troops in Iraq and other wars who gave up there lives for this nation but remember How Great our God is and will be forever. 

“Living in a time when issues of war, religious politics, and a host of other moral opinions divide the United States, a call to patriotism seems like an imprudent request. But patriotism, like all other kinds of loyalties, can draw us closer or farther away from God.” This is partial quote from this web site http://biblestudies.stores.yahoo.net/paandgod.html

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