Greetings š
This scripture captures a portion of what we honor on Memorial Day. The willingness of men and women to sacrifice their lives to save strangers.
āMy command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down oneās life for oneās friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his masterās business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruitāfruit that will lastāand so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. This is my command: Love each other.ā John 15: 12-17 (NIV).
We would not have our nation, our livelihood, or our future without the sacrifices of our forebears. Letās emulate Christ and letās also honor our fallen dead from every war.
I prayed for todayās scripture and this is what the Lord dropped into my spirit. Maybe we all need this reminder that God has high standards. Christianity is a come as you are religion, but we are expected to allow Christ and the Holy Spirit to change us from the inside out.
āOr do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.ā
1 Corinthians 6: 9-10 (ESV).
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āA Call to Repentance
Come, and let us return to the Lord;āØFor He has torn, but He will heal us;āØ
He has stricken, but He will bind us up.āØAfter two days He will revive us;āØ
On the third day He will raise us up,āØThat we may live in His sight.āØLet us know,āØ
Let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord. His going forth is established as the morning;āØ
He will come to us like the rain,āØLike the latter and former rain to the earth.ā
Hosea 6:1-3 (NKJV).
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