They left home as boys 8 decades ago to go out and save the world. Last night they sat at the WWII Memorial together and celebrated their country's 250th. Still heroic.
That pub may be 1,216 years older than us, yet:
- You guys no longer rule the vast lands that you once did, while we went from 13 small colonies to about half a continent.
- You used to be a world power, but now your military is small and weak in comparison to what it once was while we now have the greatest military in the world.
- We had to save you guys in 2 world wars because despite being a much younger country, we had more resources, manpower, military strength, and better technology.
- You used to be a country full of proud Brits, but now you're overrun by 3rd worlders who ràpe your kids, rob you, wave foreign flags, and chant for your deaths while marching through your streets.
We also have issues with 3rd worlders, but it's not nearly as bad and our federal government is actually working on deporting them instead of embracing them.
- You gave up your guns and now you no longer have freedom of speech.
We on the other hands have countless guns and our freedom of speech is the first thing that our founding fathers ensured was protected.
- You may have a king, but you still call us daddy (when you have any issues that you need help with).
That pub may be 1,216 years older than us, yet:
- You guys no longer rule the vast lands that you once did, while we went from 13 small colonies to about half a continent.
- You used to be a world power, but now your military is small and weak in comparison to what it once was while we now have the greatest military in the world.
- We had to save you guys in 2 world wars because despite being a much younger country, we had more resources, manpower, military strength, and better technology.
- You used to be a country full of proud Brits, but now you're overrun by 3rd worlders who ràpe your kids, rob you, wave foreign flags, and chant for your deaths while marching through your streets.
We also have issues with 3rd worlders, but it's not nearly as bad and our federal government is actually working on deporting them instead of embracing them.
- You gave up your guns and now you no longer have freedom of speech.
We on the other hands have countless guns and our freedom of speech is the first thing that our founding fathers ensured was protected.
- You may have a king, but you still call us daddy (when you have any issues that you need help with).
You know what shook me when I was Muslim?
The story of Hosea. God tells a prophet to marry a woman He knows will betray him.
She does. She runs to other men. She ends up enslaved, sold, used up, worthless to the world.
And God tells Hosea to go BUY HER BACK.
To pay money for his own wife who cheated on him, and love her again. Hosea 3.
I thought it was the most humiliating command in the Bible. Why would any man do that?
Then I realized I was the wife.
I gave my heart to everything but God. I chased other masters. I sold myself cheap. I made myself worthless.
And God looked at me, the betrayer, and didn’t say “you’re not worth it.”
He said, “Name the price. I’m buying her back.”
That’s the Gospel. God doesn’t wait for the unfaithful to come crawling back clean.
He pays to redeem them while they’re still dirty.
Islam told me to make myself worthy of God.
Hosea showed me a God who pays to redeem the unworthy.
The cross was Him naming the price.
Praise the Lord.