Today’s 333 Devotional: “Memorial Stones”

With Memorial Day coming this Monday, it got me thinking about building memorials in our lives.

While I’m not a big fan of physical representations, there’s just something that speaks to me when the children of Israel set up a memorial to commemorate and remember the miracle God gave in stopping the waters of the river Jordan allowing them to cross over to the Promise Land.

“And those twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal. Then he spoke to the children of Israel, saying: ‘When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What are these stones?’ then you shall let your children know … or the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over … that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty, that you may fear the Lord your God forever.’” (Joshua 4:20-24)

A memorial is an object that serves to focus a memory of something that has occurred, whether it has been a person who has died, or an event. The most common memorials are landmarks or art, such as sculptures, statues, or fountains. People have placed memorial plaques on park benches, or at the site where the event occurred.

This is done to let others know about what happened, or the person being commemorated. Its purpose is then to give testimony.

When it comes to our testimonies, what has God done in our lives?

Have we set up some sort of memorial to commemorate the miracle God has done our lives? And do we know what sort of testimony we will give when others ask the meaning of what we have erected in our lives? And please know that ultimate memorial and testimony is the life we live for Christ.

And let our testimony be what has God done in your life, which is that hope that is in you.