When explorers travel to new lands, the first order of business is to claim that which they’ve discovered. Arrive on an uncharted island? Plant the country’s flag. Be the first to the moon? Out comes the red, white, and blue.
The same is true in times of war. The image of the Stars and Stripes being raised at Iwo Jima has become an iconic legend.
How do we mark our spiritual discoveries? What about the battles we fight against the enemy? When God gives us the victory, what is the standard we raise, so that the world will know we are victorious?
Each of the five Books of Moses, also called the Torah or Pentateuch, has a theme. Deuteronomy is all about our covenant relationship with God.
Deuteronomy 29:12-13 describes our flag of discovery, our victory banner unfurled before the world.
“That thou should enter into covenant with the Lord your God, and into his oath, which the Lord your God makes with you this day: That he may establish you today for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto you a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
Reread that bold sentence and think about this: Who has discovered whom? God says, He will establish…
When we come to God, and we offer him our heart, he plants his flag in us. He rejoices as he marks his victory over sin. Each soul that finds the cross is an Iwo Jima victory for our Savior and Lord.
In the same way, we must mark our victories in him, not only for the world to see, but to remind ourselves that he has given us the victory, and what has been claimed is already ours.
We have to place our flag for the world to see.
How can we do this? Mark our Bibles. Post it on Facebook. Put signs in our yards. Hang plaques on the walls. Throw a party, and invite everyone we know!
When we place our flag of victory for the world to see, it will remind us that Jesus is our champion, and that he defeated our enemy when he hung on the cross for our sins.
Raise the banner of Christ high, so that the entire world knows he is our champion.
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