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MEMORIAL
It is gratitude that prompted an old man to visit an old broken pier on the eastern seacoast of Florida.
Every Friday night, until his death in 1973, he would return, walking slowly and slightly stooped with a large bucket of shrimp.
The sea gulls would flock to this old man, and he would feed them from his bucket.
Many years before, in October, 1942, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker was on a mission in a B-17 to deliver an important message to General Douglas MacArthur in New Guinea.
But there was an unexpected detour which would hurl Captain Eddie into the most harrowing adventure of his life.
Somewhere over the South Pacific the Flying Fortress became lost beyond the reach of radio.
Fuel ran dangerously low, so the men ditched their plane in the ocean.
For nearly a month Captain Eddie and his companions would fight the water, and the weather, and the scorching sun.
They spent many sleepless nights recoiling as giant sharks rammed their rafts.
The largest raft was nine by five.
The biggest shark...ten feet long.
But of all their enemies at sea, one proved most formidable: starvation.
Eight days out, their rations were long gone or destroyed by the salt water.
It would take a miracle to sustain them.
And a miracle occurred.
In Captain Eddie's own words, "Cherry," that was the B- 17 pilot, Captain William Cherry, "read the service that afternoon, and we finished with a prayer for deliverance and a hymn of praise.
There was some talk, but it tapered off in the oppressive heat.
With my hat pulled down over my eyes to keep out some of the glare, I dozed off."
Now this is still Captian Rickenbacker talking..."Something landed on my head.
I knew that it was a sea gull.
I don't know how I knew, I just knew.
Everyone else knew too.
No one said a word, but peering out from under my hat brim without moving my head, I could see the expression on their faces.
They were staring at that gull.
The gull meant food...if I could catch it."
And the rest, as they say, is history.
Captain Eddie caught the gull.
Its flesh was eaten.
Its intestines were used for bait to catch fish.
The survivors were sustained and their hopes renewed because a lone sea gull, uncharacteristically hundreds of miles from land, offered itself as a sacrifice.
You know that Captain Eddie made it.
And now you also know...that he never forgot.
Because every Friday evening, about sunset...on a lonely stretch along the eastern Florida seacoast...you could see an old man walking...white-haired, bushy-eyebrowed, slightly bent.
His bucket filled with shrimp was to feed the gulls...to remember that one which, on a day long past, gave itself without a struggle...like manna in the wilderness.
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Joshua 4
The purpose of taking the stones was not just for a showcase, but it was for a remembrance to tell others what God had done for them.
The same as the cross is a remembrance of what God has done for us.
The purpose of taking the stones was not just for a showcase, but it was for a remembrance to tell others what God had done for them.
The same as the cross is a remembrance of what God has done for us.
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Memorial in the water as well as in the dry grounds.
God does not want us to forget where God has led us in the past.
God does not want us to lead the present neither.
God wants to be the leader, He want us just to obey.
Joshua 4:21-
As Joshua had twelve stones to erect a memorial.
Jesus had twelve men to erect a church that stands on the cornerstone which is Jesus.
As Christ is in our lives people can ask us what does this stone means to you, and we can describe what Jesus has done for us.
God allow us to erect memorials, example: Churches, Community Center Building, School; It’s all to point the people to the wonderful God that we serve.
The moment we take our sight off of God we no longer have the blessings of God.
The Israelite took their eyes off of God and ended up being cut of as the royal nation.
The disciples took their eyes off of Jesus and ended fighting who was going to be sitting on the right hand of God.
Peter took his sight off of Jesus and he ended up in the waters drowning.
The moment we take our sight off the cornerstone we will always end up back in the middle of the river begging for dry ground.
The amazing thing is that in the midst of the river still stands a memorial that will bring you back to dry ground, His name is Jesus, the cornerstone.
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