Today is Memorial Day. This is a day set aside to remember and honor those who died in the armed services protecting our country. They paid the ultimate price for our freedom.

I do want to appreciate them and honor their memory.  We need to be a people who remember and honor our soldiers. Armed Forces Day (May 18, 2024) honors those who currently wear our country’s uniform. Veterans Day (November 11, 2024) honors those who have worn our country’s uniform. But today, Memorial Day, we honor those who died wearing our country’s uniform. What sacrifice these brave men and women made and are still making as they defend and protect us.

As a believer, I also want to especially remember the great sacrifice my Savior made to pay the penalty for my sin. Yesterday I shared with you about a person I called Shelly (not her real name) and her many difficulties.

“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31).

At times it felt as if everything and everybody was against her. Then the day came when she read Romans 8, and even though she had read it many times before, suddenly this verse seemed to leap from the page of the Scriptures. It was as if the Holy Spirit was showing her something that she had never seen before.

Because she knew the Lord Jesus as her own personal Savior, this glorious, awesome, hard-to-describe assurance came to her. According to Romans 8:31, God was for her! Even though her life was still filled with difficulties, she began to view these hard situations through a totally different grid. You will smile at her new mindset.  She spoke out loud saying, “So my problems, you have come to make my life difficult, have you? Well, let me tell you, ‘God is for me,’ so you better watch out!”  At times she actually smiled as she rehearsed this expression time after time. How about you? Have you made the same discovery as Shelly?

You might smile at this, but think of it for today: Watch out, problems! God is for us!