Following Marching Orders……

I was talking to a retired Marine officer recently and he told me something that really stuck with me and is a great way to follow up to the last blog entry.  I was asking him if his experience at Paris Island was brutal as I’ve heard it described by others.  He said at one point in his career he was in charge of some of the Drill Sergeants at Paris Island, (he is a Full Col. in retirement).  He said yes it is probably worse than you think.  He followed with, “for good reason, we have to prepare them to do the hardest thing you can imagine, take orders and do what they are told to do, even when it seems like certain death might be the result!”  He explained to me that the only way a combat unit can succeed is if they put duty and honor above their own lives, in other words follow marching orders.

It seems to me that in the times we live, we are going to face a lot of extreme difficulties and the question we must come to grips with, as a Christian, is are we going to follow the orders we got from Jesus?!  His last words to us were to go an spread the Gospel to all the world.  What is the Gospel? The knowledge that God is real, that He loves us, He loved us so much that He sent His only Son to die for us, and that through believing in Him and accepting that forgiveness we can have eternal life.”  We can’t do a that if we deny his existence or fail to share with others that He is real and relevant!!!!

The world is walking away from that Truth, in fact much of the world is running from it.  Our Marching Orders are to reach out and love the lost, to help them see and understand that the Gospel is not only real, but v very real for them!

Is it hard?  Yes!   Will there be danger?  Yes!  Should that stop us?   No

Onward Chrisitan Soldiers…….

Blessings and Boldness to you,

the pilgrim