Patriot’s Day is celebrated every April in Massachusetts. It is a day to remember those courageous men and women who defied the world’s most powerful colonial empire. The result of that defiance is, of course, The United States of America. Massachusetts is rich in heritage. Every town square has its monuments dedicated to the memory of those who sacrificed blood and often life that we might live in freedom. The little college where my wife and I teach is the site of a brutal massacre conducted during King Phillip’s War. We have our monument.
It is important to remember events and people. Monuments give us a sense of who we are. Each of us is the product of past heroes and good-for-nothings. Hopefully there were more of heroes than the other kind. Not only do we have monuments of stone but we have monuments in time. Patriot’s Day is a monument in time. July the 4th is a monument in time. Easter is a monument in time. Good Friday is a monument in time.
In Genesis 2 God established a monument in time. Moses wrote, “Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.” Being that the Jesus who died on the cross is the very same being that created our world (see Hebrews 1) each seventh day is a memorial in time to celebrate God’s creative power, His responsibility and His amazing love.
Written by Roger Bothwell on April 20, 2009
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