Lest We Forget!

Yesterday, here in Australia, we celebrated Anzac Day. A day where Australians remember soldiers who have fallen in battle.

The day starts early with dawn services held at different war memorials around the country that have been erected to remember those brave soldiers.

Some of these services are televised, so you can watch them from the comfort of your home, instead of the normal cold and sometimes wet environments that many of the soldiers would have been all too familiar with.

As a migrant to this country, I found this Anzac Day to be quite moving. As my wife and children sat around the TV watching the addresses and presentations, I could not help but remember the instructions of Deuteronomy 6. Here we find instructions to teach our children the laws and decrees from the Lord. Not only the laws and decrees but also of how the Lord had delivered them from the hand of Pharaoh in Egypt.

Dad's, I think it is important to remind our children that the freedom we have as a country is thanks to some very brave men who served their country - however, I believe it is more than that. You see, these men who fought for our country are heroes. They are to be applauded! But it is vital to teach our children that God is the one who gives the victory! For He is bringing about His plans and purposes. It is His ultimate end that we are headed. His eternal Kingdom!

Teach your children about the heroic actions of men who have laid down their life for our country. But don't miss the opportunity to tell them of the most amazing sacrifice - God loving sinners so much that he sent his one and only Son, so that we might have eternal life.

Too extreme? Not for the King of Kings and Lord of Lords!

(photos courtesy of Herald Sun)