Remembrance Day Laying Poppies To Honour Those Who Died
Thursday November 10, 2016
Recovery is a gift. Life and freedom are a gift. So many others have contributed to the new life and freedom we have today. Now that the haze of active addiction has lifted, we have a chance to come away from a place of alienation and isolation and with clear vision see our lives in community with others.
In the days leading up to Remembrance Day, many of us wear a poppy. After the civic ceremonies, people often take their poppy off and lay it on the cenotaph in their community. This is done to personally honour the soldiers who showed love for family and country even to the point of laying down their lives.
It is also important to remember that Jesus Christ laid down His life for us. No one took Jesus’ life from Him. He offered it so we could experience forgiveness and freedom from sin and brokenness.
When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good. But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. (Romans 5:6-8 NLT)
Soldiers fought so that you and I could have peace and freedom in our country. Jesus suffered and died so that we could have peace and freedom from the power of sin. Jesus is also preparing a place for us in His Father’s House in Heaven. God wants us to know the value He places on relationship with each one of us. Jesus paid the ultimate price so you and I could have a purposeful life in the place where we live today, and eternal life with Him in the place He has gone to prepare for us.
Heavenly Father, as we go to remembrance ceremonies tomorrow and lay our poppies on the memorials, help us to remember and honour the veterans whose service has directly impacted our freedom to live in recovery today. Help us also to remember and honour You for Your love, demonstrated in Jesus, who bought us back from certain death and gave us eternal life.
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