On Veterans Day Let's Pray for Peace

I see the faces of loved ones on your pages; some returned to join their families and some were lost to a cruel war. I'm thankful for the many years my husband served during peace time with the 142nd Field Artillery. I am thankful he didn't have to see combat on a foreign field but I know he would have gladly gone should the need have arisen.

War is a horrible thing. It's something that has been waged since early times. Genesis 14:14-16 tells that Abram heard a relative had been taken captive, he called 318 men to pursue and attack. They were successful and returned the relative.

What should we do during wartime? First of all, we must pray for our government leaders as well as our military leaders that they will look to God for answers. We need to pray for the safety of our military and for the families they leave behind. We need to pray for those men and women who have returned; some so shattered physically and mentally, they have to live on the streets. And, more than anything, we need to pray for the return of the Lord when there will be no more war.

In God's word, we find the Lord talking to Isaiah about Judah and Jerusalem. The Lord gave Isaiah a promise.

"The Lord will settle international disputes; all the nations will convert their weapons of war into implements of peace. Then at the last all wars will stop and all military training will end." Isaiah 2:4 (TLB)

Let's continue to pray for peace....................