05/25/2026
Memorial Day reminds us that freedom has always carried a cost.
Pentecost reminds us that courage does too.
The Apostle Paul wrote: “I endure all things for the sake of God's own people…” (2 Timothy 2:10)
Robert Collyer reflected on Job’s suffering this way:“No man lives to himself.”
“If Job could have known as he sat there in the ashes, bruising his heart on this problem of Providence-that in the trouble that had come upon him he was doing what one man may do to work out the problem for the world, he might again have taken courage.
No man lives to himself. Job's life is but your life and mine written in
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So, then, though we may not know what trials wait on any of us, we can believe that as the days in which Job wrestled with his dark maladies are the only days that make him worth remembrance, and but for which his name had never been written in the book of fife, so the days through which we struggle, finding no
way, but never losing the fight, will be the most significant we
are called to live.” — Robert Collyer
Some battles are fought on distant shores. Some are fought in hospital rooms, homes, workplaces, grief, loneliness, or quiet faithfulness nobody else sees.
Yet God often uses the hard days—the days we wrestle, endure, and refuse to quit—to shape hope, strengthen others, and reveal His glory.
The disciples received the Holy Spirit at Pentecost not so they could live comfortably… but courageously.
This Memorial Day, we remember those who endured for others; and we pray for the Spirit to help us do the same.
