Look! A flag!

I have two year old son and he loves the American Flag. He notices every time we pass one and he really likes the big ones. It is not just any flag that he notices, it is specifically "Old Glory."

I like that.

He may be two years old and has no idea what the American Flag stands for but he realizes it is special and takes notice of it. How often do we pass a flag and forget that is even there? I realize this may have been a post better suited for the 4th of July, and I don't really want this blog to turn political, but this thought just struck me as we were driving down town to go to lunch. I am glad my son likes the American flag. I want him to grow up and realize what a privilege we have to live in America. When he gets older we are going to take him to Washington D.C. to see all the monuments and museums, and teach about what this country was founded on.

Which brings me to another thought. We are in the middle of a video series at our church by John Bevere, entitled "Honor's Reward." (it is a great book that I would highly recommend to anyone) In this last session he spoke about honor toward public officials and the difference between Democratic thinking and Kingdom thinking. As a democratic society I think we have lost almost all understanding of what it is to honor. I don't know what is going to happen in the upcoming election, but I do realize that I need to find and understand what it really means to honor, even when we would think someone is not worthy of it. I want to do it to honor God, but I also want to do it so that my son will grow up still loving the American Flag and knowing that because we live in a place with freedom, we are all the more responsible to honor, not because we are made to, but because we choose to.