To those who have served in our military,
Thank you for serving our country.
Some of you have had to serve in combat, and you've risked your life for freedom.
Growing calloused to death is something that is a risk for those who have seen more death and have had to use a weapon against other human beings.
You have likely seen things that you can never forget.
There can be long-lasting effects to having lived through traumatic circumstances.
Whatever the case, you know that freedom is costly and life is not something to be taken for granted.
Because I care about you, I want you to know the truth that can set you free in an even greater way.
God created you and me. Yet we have rebelled against Him. We've broken His Law. Lying, lusting, stealing, murdering, gossiping, committing adultery or premarital sex or homosexuality, profaning His name, and loving anything more than Him are examples of rebellion against Him.
God is light and there is no darkness in Him at all. He is holy, and we all deserve His just wrath and punishment. He is the eternal Judge. Because of who He is, an eternity in Hell is just punishment.
But God...in mercy God sent His only Son (fully God and fully man) to be born of a virgin, to live a perfectly righteous life that none of us can. He did miraculous signs attesting to who He is. Jesus came to earth to die. The perfect God-man suffered and shed His blood on a Roman cross taking the punishment for sinners who are guilty. He suffered agony and was killed willingly for the sins of everyone who would ever believe. This was planned from eternity. Jesus rose from the dead which was witnessed to by many people.
He is the one who will judge the living and the dead. He is the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father but through Him.
He sent His Spirit to dwell in those who trust in Him.
I urge you to be reconciled to God, to turn from sin and to trust in Christ alone for eternal life.
Those who trust in Him will be with Him forever, and whatever we suffer in this life cannot compare to the joy of eternity with Him.
Please read the 66 books of the Bible.
So, thank you again so much for your willingness to risk your life for my temporal life, and in turn I am giving you the good news that God can use to save your eternal soul that you might have eternal life.
