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“Remember why we are in the Lord’s Army?”
Categories: Christian PrinciplesTonk Talk
A young man who enlisted in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, took his watch repairing kit with him. While in camp, he did considerable business. Finally, the order came to strike camp and prepare to go to battle. The young man replied, “But I can’t go, I have twelve watches to repair, and I have promised them by Saturday evening!
How many of us who have “enlisted in the Lord’s Army” are doing the same thing? How many of us are so busy in “civilian pursuits” that we have neglected the very purpose of why we are in the Lord’s Army? Many times, like the soldier repairing watches, we forget why we are in the Lord's Army.
Paul reminds us as soldiers of Christ what we are to be doing in 2 Tim. 2:3-4, explains, “Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him.” Paul teaches that our purpose as soldiers of Christ is “to please the one who enlisted us,” that is Christ, and not to get “entangled in civilian pursuits.”
So how are we to please our Lord and not get “entangled in civilian pursuits”? The following are at least five things we should strive to do to please Christ: First, stay in fellowship with God and one another. 1 John 1:7 states, “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.” Second, keep telling others about Christ. Mark 16:15, Jesus commands,“…“Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.” Third, keep worshiping the Lord. John 4:24, tells us, “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” Fourth, keep growing in Christ. Eph. 4:15, reads, “Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ.” Last, be a servant, find someone to help, and participate in a ministry, as Col. 3:23, instructs, “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,”.
As Christians may we never forget who we serve and the reason we serve in the Lord’s Army. In Christ, Mark T. Tonkery
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