Today is veteran's day. A time to honor those who have served, many of whom have suffered, and even given their lives to protect our freedoms and quality of life. When these men and women serve they have no gaurantees that what they are fighting for will be preserved. Those in Iraq and Afganistan today can only hope that their efforts will result in acheiving stated objectives. Much of the success or failure rests on the decisions of beaurocrats who are nowhere near the combat zones. Why then do these men and women volunteer to be put in harm's way? Because they love their country!
Their is a spiritual lesson here. As believers in Jesus Christ we are foot soldiers for the Kingdom of God. We don't use weapons of violence and death. Our weapons are far more powerful. We have the weapons of truth, love, grace and mercy in the Holy Spirit because of Jesus Christ. We also know something our enemy doesn't want others to know, the victory is already won! We still fight battles because the enemy has convinced those who don't believe that they could still achieve ultimate victory.
With this in mind, knowing the victory is won, lets storm the gates of hell with all the weapons at our disposal. Lets take the hill or the city or the neighborhood for the Kingdom of God with the same passion, love, zeal and preparedness that the veterans who have served our nation had.
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