Be Moved By Faith

In preparing for this weekends sermon which is based on Memorial Day, May 31; it occurred to me how little attention we pay to things which have gone before.  Is it inappropriate to do so- as some constantly preach against living in the past, is it therefore, not faithful to consider the past?  Jesus said to consider the day at present as being evil enough:  Mat 6:34 "Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day [is] the evil thereof."  Taken at face value that seems to mean something that after careful consideration proves to be false, Jesus isn't saying not to plan for the future, nor is He saying to pay no attention to the past, His emphasis at this point is on the present because He is talking to people who have distorted honesty in the present over truth.  Today let's properly consider how important people are and who important therefore, what you can do for them, eternally, is?  The most important thing that we can do in memorial to those great saints of faith who have gone before us, and to honor all those who have gone before us that we might live where we live, as we live- is to share the truth about Jesus with people who need to hear.