The greatest export from the United States is not
aboard super freighters that ply the oceans, nor does it
fill the bellies of aircraft that constantly load and unload
goods across the globe. It is not found in the billions of
financial transactions that move massive sums from this
place to that. There is no accounting for it in the Gross
Domestic Product or on any stock exchange or stacked
in warehouses. It is the noble concept of liberty.
It was the idea of liberty that fired the patriot zeal in
1776, that endured the wintry blast of Valley Forge, that birthed a republic of
free people. Liberty dictated that the centuries old institution of slavery could
not endure and it was liberty that demanded that an oppressed race stand tall
to claim the panorama of freedom.
Believing that liberty was never meant for a single country, young men
and women who never thought to leave their hometown, much less their
country, assaulted beaches, dropped from the skies, dove under the sea and
slogged through swamp and desert. Some never lived to see their hometown
again or feel the warmth of a mother's hug. Others left behind a part of
themselves, returning with shattered bodies and damaged minds. But liberty
drove them there and kept them fighting, all with the hope of leaving the gift
of freedom behind when they came home.
The concept of liberty is grounded in a gospel that teaches that though
people are chained by sin, deliverance is our destiny, salvation our heritage.
Hear the challenge and the promise: "It is for freedom that Christ has set us
free" (Galatians 5:1). So then, in Christ be free.
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Freedom takes on special significance when those who had it have it no more.
But even those who never experienced it have some sense of it. Maya Angelou
describes it this way:
The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.
This month we celebrate the anniversary of our country's freedom, and we
remember those who first came to this country to find not primarily political
freedom but religious freedom; to be able to worship as one's conscience
dictated, but more importantly as God led.
Yet there is a freedom more profound than that. Some of Jesus' first
words as He began His public ministry were from the prophet Isaiah: "He has
sent me to proclaim freedom to the prisoners . . . to release the oppressed"
(Luke 4:18). The experience of many is that faith in Jesus results in just that--
freedom from the effects of sin, in fact, freedom from a life of sin itself. Isaiah
precedes that by saying this is good news--good news indeed! Those whose
lives have been broken, those bound up in various addictions and unhealthy
habits, those caught in lifestyles that do nothing but cause and create pain
and hopelessness, those who believe life can never be any different, any
better, in fact can find the freedom of which Jesus testified He could bring,
because the Spirit of the Lord is on Him.
During these days of celebrating national freedom, God help us also to
celebrate the freedom to find new life,
which Christ makes possible.
MESSAGE FROM THE NATIONAL COMMANDER
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
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