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What Can We Learn From Our ANZAC Forefather’s

 Courage!





“I will at least have laid down my life for you and my country, which is the greatest privilege one can ask for.” (G. McCrae Aust. Light Horse 1916)
One would have to admit that today’s society is more than a bit lacking when it  comes to anything requiring courage. We live in the ‘anxiety society’ – fear is rampant today, in fact it’s in plague proportions.
 Indeed our modern world seems to breed fear, we are threatened by everything from Muslim terrorists flying planes into New York buildings, to the latest disease such as ebola, swine flu and AIDS. Not to mention global warming, nuclear reactor meltdowns, tsunamis, earthquakes, lunatic Middle Eastern despots threatening nuclear war or the elimination of Israel. There are problems with the sun, the water we drink, the food we eat, the earth is either warming up or cooling down (depending who you listen to) and on top of that we have a huge rise in crime, drugs, family breakdown and the biggest financial disaster since the Great Depression. The word ‘terror’ is almost a daily byword in many news reports, yet it rarely raises an eyebrow. Soon we have to invent new superlatives to generate a higher degree of fear. We grow up fearing everything from war to dying alone, going bankrupt to being sued, being mugged, shot by a criminal bikie, blown up or being beheaded by a crazy terrorist! We fear losing our jobs to losing our minds, everything in and on our bodies from the mole on our back to any strange pain. We pop pills and drugs more than any other generation. Yet fear is considered normal today, in actual fact, according to News magazine; “Ordinary children today are more fearful than psychiatric patients were in the 1950s”.

            Even more sadly, some churches actually add to the problem by prophecying and preaching doom and gloom! So what can we learn from our ANZAC forefathers that could possibly be relevant today? Perhaps courage and mateship would be a good place to start. I believe the words to the song ‘Here’s to the Heroes’ sums up the debt we owe to our ANZAC forefathers.

 Here’s To The Heroes        By Barry, John/Black, Don

                                                                                       

                                       Here’s to the heroes, Those few who dare,

                                       Heading for glory, Living a prayer.

                                       Here’s to the heroes, Who change our lives.

                                       Thanks to the heroes, Freedom survives.

                                        Here’s to the heroes Who never rest.

                                        They are the chosen, We are the blessed.

                                        Here’s to the heroes, Who aim so high.

                                        Here’s to the heroes Who do or die.


Col Stringer Ministries
http://www.colstringer.com/

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