GOOD SOLDIER

By Rick Mathes

2 Timothy 2:3 (NASB77) ³   Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

It’s easy when it’s easy but the true athlete, the good soldier will still be standing tall and competitive after the wave of suffering and persecution. He may lose a battle from time to time but we always win the war. This assault from the enemy inherently provides the good soldier with a discipline that can only come about by God’s grace.

Our Commander-in-Chief reveals His grace when all else appears futile in the face of hand to hand combat with a fallen angel. This exercise in faith and trust in Jesus sharpens the Sword and strengthens the arm that lifts the shield of faith: spritiual growth is the ultimate result.

When a new reruit has been passed through the flames of combat and has went face to face with Satan’s tarnished angels, he soo learns why man will ultimately command legions of battle ready devils in the ends times battle of the worlds.

Once you have the scars and bruises, our Christian serice to the King will be exchanged and your surrender to His will, completely, will be in full effect. The iron fist of faith will prevail against the very gest hell has to throw against we believers.

We will lift our hands in victory to our Savior as we surrender to His will and put our full reliance on His provisions. Believe and obey, believe and obey, that is the cry of the Crusader “Believer and Obey!”

In short, a good soldier’s always maintains his perspective through the pris of God’s Holy Scriptures By decree, our leader will accept the battle beaten victor and separate him from the rest that talked the talk but didn’t walk the talk. No counterfeits will get b the Holy Spirits inspection.

A fully commited soldier is consecrated by the imputed righteousness of Jesus: this is holiness personified. A soldier wholly His walking in holiness and persevering to the end. This is the essence a selfless martyr that sores in the regenerative power of Chris and kills death with the Sword of God, the Holy Bible!