| |  It's May and it has been four months since I posted on this blog, but the time is nigh! Today is May 1st and it is a holiday here in blooming verdant Germany and we shall ride the silver horse with friends to celebrate! However, in this resplendent splendor called Spring which conjours up emotions of hope and romance, there is an invisible war raging and we must not forget we are called to be soldiers of the cross! Oh, how I picture that deceptive toothless conquored lion called Satan enjoying this time too because we can get so distracted by non eternal things as we can all year long. May it not be so! The beauty around us and the lusty feelings of May are but shadows of what is to come when Christ returns to restore us and the earth to its full glory - something often hard to imagine in view of beauty around us! Here are some words to hopefully stir and keep fellow soldiers and sojourners on track - keeping eternity in view and our King of Heaven and the city of Zion our goal ever pressing onward for His glory!
"With heaven's commander, sacrifice is ever the order of the day. All who follow him must take up a cross and deny themselves( how we hate this in contrast to the selfish self-focused world we live in) There are many who drop out on the way. They find complete obedience to His commands too hard. For them there must be an easier round to travel. A picnic, not a battlefield, suits them better. (Hey, I am all for picnics, but this is about perspective!). Our heavenly Commander is incomparable in that he was the first to fall in battle against Satan and his evil hordes. In His supreme victory all His followers are secure and by His death gather inspiration and strength to fight the good fight beneath his blood-red banner."
"The gospel is brought to us in terms of battle - the sword, the shield, the armor,, the soldier, the enemy , the fight. It is God who teaches our fingers to war. (Not as the world wars - for ours requires submitting out pride and getting on our knees in prayer as well as rescuing those in dark dungeons of sin and fear and shame through love and light.) As soldiers of the cross we must manifest a militant spirit. We must dare to be Daniel. In these days of spiritual delusion, abounding iniquity, and actions hostile to God and truth, we have need to pray for more iron in our blood, more courage in our piety, more of the bracing north in our personal witness!" (Seasons of the Lord by Herbert Lockyer)
May we not become weary, my fellow soldiers and travelers and may we not get off track and off target of why we are here as God's marching children!
FOR THE KINGDOM AND FOR THE KING....ONWARD!
love you all,
Mama G
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