By His Blood

A large number of homes fly flags. Stars and stripes, right by the door, sometimes right next to a cross like they're a matching set.
I get why. I love this country.

But somewhere along the way, I had to sit with a hard question: which one do we actually prioritize?

The Order Matters

I didn't grow up questioning it. Faith and flag just sort of blurred together — same church pew, same Fourth of July cookout, same hand over the same heart. It took growing in my walk with God to actually see it clearly.

The more I grew in my faith, the more I started noticing something that unsettled me: people elevating our freedoms and liberties — the very things God provided for us in the first place — above their relationship with the One True God who gave it all. Freedom got treated like the point. Liberty got treated like the source. And the God who actually purchased both got quietly moved to second place, or third, or wherever was convenient.

Here's where I've landed, and it's not up for negotiation in my house: it's God over country. Not country over God. It has never been the other way around, and it never will be.

Country is a gift. It's not the giver. A flag can represent a lot of good things — sacrifice, freedom, home — but it can't save anybody. It never bled for you. Only one person ever did that.

Why This Design

That's where this design comes from. Black and white stripes, same striped as the flag we're all used to saluting — except this one doesn't point to a country. It points to a cross. A Jerusalem cross, actually — one center cross surrounded by four smaller ones, an old symbol for Christ's wounds and the gospel going out to every corner of the earth. And running through every stripe, the blood that actually purchased something worth standing for.

I wanted a flag that made the order plain the second you looked at it. Not freedom first with a little Jesus mixed in. Not liberty first with a little Jesus mixed in. Him first. Always. Everything else — the flag on your porch, the freedoms you've been handed, the ground you were born on — comes after, because He's the one who provided it all.

The Truth Under the Design

"By His blood we are saved" isn't a slogan I picked because it sounded good on a stripe. It's the whole gospel in four words. Not by my performance. Not by my freedoms. Not by which liberties I've been fortunate enough to enjoy. By His blood. Full stop. He gave us those freedoms — they never gave us Him.

That's grit — standing firm on that order even when it costs you a friendship, a comment section, a family dinner that gets tense. And that's gospel — the truth that never changes no matter how loud the culture around it gets.

Fly It Like You Mean It

If you hang this one up, hang it knowing what it's actually saying: this house believes God comes first. Not second to a country, not second to a party, not second to anything with a flagpole. First.

By His blood, we are saved. Everything else is just details.

Welcome to the fight.

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