Remembrance Day sermon
Our Remembrance Day service was taken by John Currey. We started by singing ‘There is a higher throne’ by Keith and Kristyn Getty. It reminds us that God our King reigns on high for evermore and that those who have been made faultless by believing in the saving grace of Jesus, the Lamb of God, will one day reign on high with him in Heaven. We will belong in his presence, entitled to be there, free from pain, sorrow and death!
If, like Peter - who got out of the boat when Jesus, walking on the water, invited him to “Come”, despite the billowing waves - we have started a new life following Jesus, we look forward to a wonderful hope in his presence forever. We can trust him moment by moment even though the wind and waves still buffet us!
In Micah 4, 1-7 we read that when Jesus reigns as King of Kings on earth, we will know freedom from ignorance, war, hunger and fear. What a wonderful time that will be!
However, Isaiah 40 v 28-31 and Isaiah 41 v 10 remind us that whilst we do still have wars, hunger and fear we can experience victory over these evils if we are allowing Jesus to reign in our lives now. If we fix our eyes on what is invisible (2 Corinthians 4 v 18), set our minds on things that are above (Colossians 3 v2) and fix our eyes on Jesus (Hebrews 12 v1-3) we can be assured that he is with us through the roughest of storms!
We were encouraged to: “Stand firm because he sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; be encouraged, comforted, strengthened, empowered and filled with hope”.
John read this poem before our 2 minutes of silence:
The tragedy of war ends not with those who died
For the tragedy continues in fragile minds who did survive.
For those whose names appear on brass plaque or marble stone
Are the only ones there are for whom war is truly gone.
The survivors of man’s biggest crime their guilt will have no ends
Guilt, despair and bitterness their constant hateful friend.
It’s hard to feel like victors no matter what you say
When you’re torn by guilt that you’re not the one in that green field far away.
So I say to leaders of this world this nightmare should be gone.
Please realise - once and for all that war is never won!
