It has become popular in recent months to deface & destroy statues. From military leaders to Christopher Columbus & a Spanish conquistador. One thing they all had in common is that each was a sinner & had many failures. Will taking these statues down change history? No, it won’t.
The Bible is full of history—the good, the bad, & the ugly. All there for us to learn from, as warnings to not repeat those sins. It is important to the next generation to know history, to understand it, & to ask the question why.
In the Bible, the Israelites made a monument w/12 huge stones to remind them & future generations of what God had done & how He had brought them across the Jordan River on dry ground.
Joshua 4:6-7 says, “When your children ask in time to come, ‘What do those stones mean to you?’ then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord...So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial forever.”
My prayer is that our nation will turn to God & face the future together, cherishing the hard-won freedoms we have & working in unity to make things better for the next generation.
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