November 13, 2022

ONE VETERAN’S STORY

November 13, 2022

Dr. Tim Lee

Today we extend a very warm welcome to Dr. Tim Lee, as we honor the veterans of the United States Military who have served or are serving our country. Having roots at the end of the first World War, Veterans Day was established for a day of celebration as we remember those soldiers who have stood for or fought for peace and justice in our world.

Dr. Lee is a Marine who gave the life as he had known it from birth to eighteen years of age to the United States Marine Corp. He loves to explain to audiences that the two dates engraved on the tombstones of persons who have lived and died represent very little in comparison to the “dash” that lies between the two dates. On that dash can be written an entire life, whether months, years, or decades. The stories of all people begin at their birth—those amazing or common actions that tell how one has lived a life.

Dr. Lee’s “dash” is filled with a life of adventure, pain, and happiness. Only the one who has lived life to its fullest can best tell their own story—and so it is with Dr. Lee. To hear it told by someone other than himself would take away the passion, excitement, pain, and beauty brought about by the living of those days.

As Dr. Lee would tell you, entering into a season of pain and trials that can defy description is not easy, for one has no idea if they will make it through to the other side. As it ends, however, there is a banner of truth, “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28)!”

Rather than a group study on this November 13, 2022, we respectfully ask that you go online to the Thomas Road Baptist Church website (www.trbc.org) and watch the service for today. It will be an hour spent most profitably, and you may certainly find yourself encouraging friends or family to watch the broadcast for themselves. You won’t regret watching Dr. Lee tell his story.

Above all, we want to acknowledge our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the author and finisher of our faith, who, for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has set down at the right hand of the throne of God (Hebrews 12:2). To Him be all the glory, honor, and praise for adopting as His children the sons of men! For, as the truth is in Jesus, may you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man, which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness (Eph. 4:21b-24.) Amen.

Submitted by Sandy Day November 13, 2022