This Memorial Day, take a few minutes to pray for our soldiers and their families during this time of international conflict.
***I write the following as a Christian living in the United States. No offense is intended to anyone here who is a resident of a different country. I would encourage you to take whatever application you can and apply it in your homeland. The Bible teaches that God is no respector of persons, and thus the United States has no special favour over Australia or Germany or Iraq or Russia or China - or wherever. But each person living in his/her own country should lift that nation up in prayer. And that is the spirit of the following blog posting***
This Memorial Day weekend, our family's church (Sligo Baptist Church) is holding a special patriotic service in the morning to remember and honor those who have given their lives in the course of America's history to sustain our liberty and freedom. This is of course the purpose of Memorial Day in the United States.
In the evening, we are having a special prayer service -- specifically for those men and women currently serving our nation in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other hot-spots in our world.
Politics is being left at the door. This is not about applauding or criticizing our nation's foreign policy. It's about lifting up in prayer those soldiers and their families who are bearing the cost of the War on Terror (be it Afghanistan, Iraq, or somewhere else in the world today).
I would ask YOU to do the same. Take a few minutes to lift up our soldiers and their families in prayer. If you know someone in the service, pray for them by name.
And if you can provide a word of encouragement to a family member that is missing his or her loved one during a deployment, please do so. Our armed forces and their families are stretched. They need our encouragement and our support.
If you are in that group (either a soldier serving overseas or a family member here in America), we thank you for your sacrifice - and we lift you up in prayer.
God bless you.
