On this sixty-third anniversary of D-Day, I would like to teach my younger readers a little about the tremendous significance of the event, and for the rest of us, to relate it to a modern struggle. It was the greatest amphibious assault in history, with tens of thousands of our finest boys storming the beaches of Normandy, running toward the hills that were raining down cannon and machine gun fire upon them. The Nazis had conquered almost all of Europe, but the Allies were trying to get a foothold there in the north of France. Was this massive force invading to conquer? No, they were fighting to free a conquered people. Many thousands gave their lives so that others might be free.
There is a conqueror today who is more vile and more ambitious than Adolf Hitler. Osama Bin Laden may be that, but I'm referring to Satan. God has sent His army--the Church--into all the Earth to fight for the lives of those trodden under by satanic deception and their own sin. We do not fight to conquer, but to liberate. Our weapons are prayer, faith, love, and God's word. Let us remember the courage of the D-Day vets as we also live our lives--and perhaps give our lives--for the cause of this Gospel.
