“Does that star spangled banner yet wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?”
It’s just a piece of cloth, but today, Flag Day, we remember it’s more than “just a piece of cloth.” It’s a symbol of our history, often glorious but not always so, our continuing sacrifices for the common good and our aspirations for the future.
If our eyes look up to that flag, our hearts are invited higher to the banners of the Eternal God. “You have set up a banner for those who fear You, that they may flee to it from the bow. That Your loved ones may be delivered, give salvation by Your right hand” (Psalm 60:4-5). “His banner over me is love” (Song of Solomon 2:4).
Living and working on this earthly side of Jordan, it stirs us to look to the stars and stripes, to that symbol of this great nation. And on both sides of Jordan and on the other side, the side to which the Savior is leading us, we thrill to live under the eternal banner of divine love.
“May we shout for joy over Your salvation, and in the name of our God set up our banners.” (Psalm 20:5).
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