Memorial Day, 2025

 

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~ Scripture ~

 

“So this day shall be to you a memorial” (Exodus 12:14a)

 

~ Proclamation ~

 

In honor of the veterans of the Civil War, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who had been wounded three times during that war, said the following in a Memorial Day Address in 1884:

 

“It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.”

 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

 

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Memorial Day 2024

~ Have You Forgotten Anything ~

 

Scripture ~ Jesus said, “This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends” (John 15:12-13).

 

Application:

Thank you, Joe Heller for this reminder!

 

And, thank you service men and women that have paid the ultimate price for us and followed His example.

 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

 

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Memorial Day 2023

~ Differentiations ~

 

Armed Forces Day is for those who currently wear the uniform.

 

Veteran’s Day is for those who used to wear the uniform.

 

Memorial Day is for those who never made it out of their uniform.

 

Consider Also:

 

Thanksgiving is a day when we pause to give thanks for the things we have. 

 

Memorial Day is a day when we pause to give thanks to the people who fought for the things we have.

 

Scripture:

 

Jesus said: “This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.  Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends” (John 15:12-13).

 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

 

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Pause and Reflect

 

~ Honor Those Who Gave Their All For You ~

 

Introduction ~ Many countries have set aside a day each year to remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice—dying in war—for the benefit of others.  In the United States it is called Memorial Day, and it happens every year on the last Monday of May.

 

Memorial Day is to remember those who never made it out of their uniform.  Memorial Day is a day when we pause to give thanks and pay tribute to all who fought and died for the things we often take for granted.

 

Scripture ~ Jesus said, “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.  This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.  Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.  You are My friends if you do whatever I command you” (John 15:11-15).

 

Comment ~ The ultimate test of love is sacrifice.  Jesus Christ gave the ultimate sacrifice to save us from the eternal punishment we deserve for our sins.  As Christians today we are called to make daily sacrifices.  Most are small but sometimes they are very large.  May we always remember our role model, Jesus Christ, who showed us the ultimate sacrifice.

 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

 

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They Gave All

 ~ Give Thanks ~

Introductory Scripture  ~  There is “A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace” (Ecclesiastes 3:8).

Special Tribute  ~  In the U.S.A. during the last year we have seen many individual Americans give their lives to protect others.  Special honor this year is owed to our Police who have given their all during senseless riots and to our first responders who have cared for those with the COVID virus and lost their lives in the process.

Scripture  ~  Jesus said, “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.  This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.  Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends” (John 15:11-13).

Comment  ~  Many of our police and first responders gave their lives to help or better citizens they did not know – unknown people who were not their friends. 

Give Thanks  ~  For all who so gave as themselves to have given the ultimate price for others.  Thank you, most of all, to the Lord Jesus Christ who gave His all to redeem his enemies from their sin.

“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.  And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.  Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:5-11).

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

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