Freedom is not free.
We live in a time where it seems many Americans are quick to demand rights, but slow to remember the price paid for them. White crosses rise in the fields of the national cemeteries, reminding us freedom is secured by the blood of others.
Jesus Christ gave His life to set us free from sin and death enabling us to become citizens of Heaven. American military members gave their lives to protect the freedoms we enjoy as citizens of this nation. I am thankful for both and do not take them for granted. I pray I steward this freedom faithfully.
May we pause today with humility and gratitude. May we confess, repent and reject the spirit of entitlement and forgetfulness that can rise within us.
Have a thoughtful and thankful Memorial Day!
I also posted to my substack
“Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.”
John 15:13-15
Altar of Heaven 
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