To watch a good kid grow up in the church and then die in the war is just... I don't know how to put... depressing. I sat and thought about where we are as a nation today, what is becoming of us, where are we going, etc. and now that the adrendain rush of the excitment of the service is over, I feel the impact all the more.
The choir was great Mark, and Sgt. Gasper was a hero.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
This story, like so many others, was just gut-wrenching to watch. The sacrifices this young man made for our country with doing four tours in just six years in Iraq must have been difficult for him and his family.
That was a lot of time to be away from such a young wife.
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Isaiah 53:5: "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."(KJV)
"God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves." Dwight L. Moody
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