Remember

Yesterday was Memorial Day.

Yesterday we remembered those who had died in service to this country. Who had died for us. For you and for me.

There is a sense in which every day is a Memorial Day. Every day we have reason to remember. Every day we need to stay focused on the truth that there is One who died for us. There is One who gave His life that we might be free. There is One who died for us that we might have a relationship with God through Him.

"For Christ died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, in order to bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit."  (1 Peter 3:18 NASB)

We must never forget that Somebody died for us.

Christ died for you. Christ died for me.

And because He died for us, we now live.

We now live in freedom. Not a political freedom, but a spiritual freedom. Christ has set us free from the slavery of sin. He has set us free to live for Him.

We need to remember that!  

Remember.  

And live for the One who died for us.

"So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.........Now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless principles of the world........For freedom Christ has set you free; stand firm therefore."  (Galatians 4:7, 9; 5:1  ESV)