Events and monuments....

Events and monuments.....


"Events happen on our lives, we can't control them, but we can control how we react to them..."  I heard or read  this statement recently....I didn't record where. Sorry...not all the time can we control how we will react to them, though....some are just plain ambushes to our emotions...

A friend and I went to see the movie, "the monuments men". Really good, by the way. No extra sex scenes, very little profanity, there are war scenes....fairly good acting and some humor, even...it is based on a true story of a few non combatant  men sent to find the art pieces that Hitler confiscated from museums, homes and people as he swept through Europe in World War 2 before the order was carried out to destroy them all....over 5 million were recovered as well as warehouses of whole households of Jewish belongings....

They chose the react to an event happening...in order to salvage millions of pieces of art, sculptures, church icons, personal belongings...and return  them to the rightful owners if possible...

There are monuments, treasures throughout the Bible as well, eternal ones....Noah built an altar, Abraham built altars, Jacob built an altar, the Israelites built altars, some of the prophets built altars, Moses built altars, and on down the line through Revelations..monuments to attest to the provision, salvation, glory of God, ...not to worship the altar or any graven image, but a remembrance to  what He had done or was doing...we wear crosses as a symbol of the resurrection...

We usually take pictures of events, recording significant moments, sharing them and their meaning with others...monuments of a sort...or journals of life...and feelings...another remembrance...

None of these art pieces, pictures, journals, or whatever to be worshipped, but reminders of God...part of our heritage through the ages......

thank YOU for the reminders of monuments in our lives that point back to You, that may point others to You...pieces of art that You have designed Into our lives...to be treasured as a gift from Your hand....not to be forgotten and stowed away or destroyed....remembrances ....handed down from one generation to another....


Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.

Genesis 12:7
The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 12:8
From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.

Exodus 17:15
Moses built an altar and called it The Lord is my Banner.

Exodus 20:24
“‘Make an altar of earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your sheep and goats and your cattle. Wherever I cause my name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you.

Judges 6:24
So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it The Lord Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

1 Kings 18:32a
With the stones he built an altar in the name of The Lord...