Remembering

November is a great month. I mean - my youngest was born, I got married, and then there is the greatest day of remembrance outside of Christmas and Easter. There is Veteran’s Day. I spent most of my young adult life engaged in service for our country. To be exact, just at 12 years. I knew that I had an obligation to serve the country that gave me so much. I knew later on in my life that this was one of my services to God as well. This country was set up to have a freedom to worship the one true God as each person saw fit. On November 11^th Veterans all over the country should be remembered, thanked, and appreciated. All your freedoms today are in place and active because of the service of countless men and women. Our freedom to worship without persecution, our freedom to choose our leaders, to have our voice heard, and to enjoy a wealth that no other nation truly knows. I regret that I was not able to serve my country for the time that I wanted; I had planned to serve 20 years at least. I know God has His plans for each of us and I am thankful, but that was the importance of the service to me.  We so often overlook what these men and women have sacrificed. I remember the day I walked the cemetery in Normandy, France, and how unworthy I was next to the sacrifices that all those men had made. I remember shedding tears for men who I would have never known and men that had to relation to me. Looking over the beaches where so many men lost their lives in order to save so many. Then I think how we overlook Christ and the sacrifice He made. I often find myself in that same place when I think about Christ; how unworthy I am for the sacrifice that He made. This Veteran’s Day please thank a Vet and talk to them. But most importantly thank the original Veteran of Freedom Jesus Christ. He gave us the truest of all Freedoms; he gave us freedom over death and sin. 

In Christ
Keith