On Monday we celebrated Memorial Day, which has become less of a day to remember the soldiers who have given their lives for the freedom of this country, and more of a day that signals the beginning of summer festivities. Particularly in a time such as we are living in now, when our troops are spread across the globe in conflicts that did not originate from the United States of America – it is very important that we remember that whatever we believe as to whether they should or should not be there, they are there – and they deserve our support and our respect and most of all our prayers!
God made a very big deal out of establishing memorials and in this short segment we can’t go into all the reasons why, or all the memorials established. I do want to go to one passage of scripture taken from Numbers 10:8-10 (NLT):
Only the priests, Aaron’s descendants, are allowed to blow the trumpets. This is a permanent law for you, to be observed from generation to generation.
“When you arrive in your own land and go to war against your enemies who attack you, sound the alarm with the trumpets. Then the Lord your God will remember you and rescue you from your enemies. Blow the trumpets in times of gladness, too, sounding them at your annual festivals and at the beginning of each month. And blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and peace offerings. The trumpets will remind the Lord your God of his covenant with you. I am the Lord your God.” need 5000 loan overnight indocin yellow stool
God assigned the Levitical priests and their descendants the task of blowing the trumpet to signal times of memorials. God wanted them to sound the trumpet not only to signal times of war, but also in good times, and during annual festivals, and when offerings were brought before the Lord. The sounding of the trumpet was to be a reminder to God of His Covenant – and a reminder to the people that the Lord God was indeed God.
In our contemporary churches, we have taken away many of the “trumpets” like saying the Apostles Creed every Sunday, or reciting the Lord’s prayer, or going through the scriptures that explain why we take communion, before we take it! We observe memorials, but without the sounding of the trumpet! Have we become so conscious of time that we forget to remind God of His Covenant? That we fail to understand why we celebrate our memorials? These are questions that we can’t always raise to our leaders – but we can certainly raise them to ourselves – we can certainly ask – have we become so time conscious that we as the priests of our home, have failed to blow the trumpet? That we have failed to do as God commanded when He said:
Isaiah 43:25-27 (King James Version)
“I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.” Isaiah 43:25-27 (KJV)
God Bless You,
Maria
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