So true...

[Flyin6]

I am witnessing this in my very own home.
Watching my wife
While our son gets ready to leave home to join the US Army infantry.
Gotta admit, I feel a bit of that angst myself


"If every man would wait till his wife got willing for him to go to war, there would be no fighting done till we all got killed in our own house." David Crockett 1786-1836

[Atkinsmatt]

Surround the whole thing in prayer.  I am lifting you up asking for God's peace that surpasses all understanding for you all.

[Flyin6]

Surround the whole thing in prayer.  I am lifting you up asking for God's peace that surpasses all understanding for you all.

Thanks Matt.

For you who don't know, Matt here was (Is) a tough guy. He was a first sergeant/Master Sergeant out of combat arms. He was a combat engineer, and I will tell you that is right up there with our toughest jobs. Matt managed troops while we officers went off to plan, have meetings, golf, and complain about sergeants.

He knows better than me what my boy will have to endure, and the danger he will face. It was easy being a helo pilot. It is not easy being a leather boot powered trigger puller.

Matt and I had a chat recently, so he knows very well what my pre-ranger, whose name is Nate (Just like our other tough guy here) is about to face.

With this biden presidential imposter (small letter on purpose) sitting at the helm, and with him shooting things in Syria, my heart is telling me that we are entering a time of bad, bad warfare. That light bulb came on a couple weeks ago when I did the math and realized my boys are going to have to do the heavy lifting.

Momma is taking this hard. Yesterday at lunch she just burst out. From smill to ballin' like a baby. She fears for her boys, and so do I. But I am placing the name of Jesus on that stack. I can't help Nate much longer, I hand the controls over to my son and to God to take care of him.

I hate what is coming of my country, but I completely trust that we who love the Lord will rest in the shadow of the almighty. My old book says so!

[cj7ox]

God will look over you all. I have no doubt.

[TexasRedNeck]

Prayers for you Don.  Joshua 6. God gave the enemy into their hands.


6 Now Jericho was tightly shut because of the sons of Israel; no one went out and no one came in. 2 The Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the valiant warriors. 3 You shall march around the city, all the men of war circling the city once. You shall do so for six days. 4 Also seven priests shall carry seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark; then on the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. 5 It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city will fall down [a]flat, and the people will go up every man straight ahead.”

6 So Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests carry seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord.” 7 Then [c]he said to the people, “Go forward, and march around the city, and let the armed men go on before the ark of the Lord.” 8 And it was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the Lord went forward and blew the trumpets; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord followed them. 9 The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard came after the ark, while they continued to blow the trumpets. 10 But Joshua commanded the people, saying, “You shall not shout nor let your voice be heard nor let a word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you, ‘Shout!’ Then you shall shout!” 11 So he had the ark of the Lord [d]taken around the city, circling it once; then they came into the camp and spent the night in the camp.

12 Now Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. 13 The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord went on continually, and blew the trumpets; and the armed men went before them and the rear guard came after the ark of the Lord, while they continued to blow the trumpets. 14 Thus the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp; they did so for six days.

15 Then on the seventh day they rose early at the dawning of the day and marched around the city in the same manner seven times; only on that day they marched around the city seven times. 16 At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout! For the Lord has given you the city. 17 The city shall be under the ban, it and all that is in it belongs to the Lord; only Rahab the harlot [e]and all who are with her in the house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent. 18 But as for you, only keep yourselves from the things under the ban, so that you do not [f]covet them and take some of the things under the ban, and make the camp of Israel accursed and bring trouble on it. 19 But all the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron are holy to the Lord; they shall go into the treasury of the Lord.” 20 So the people shouted, and [g]priests blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout and the wall fell down [h]flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight ahead, and they took the city. 21 They [j]utterly destroyed everything in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

22 Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the harlot’s house and bring the woman and all she has out of there, as you have sworn to her.” 23 So the young men who were spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brothers and all she had; they also brought out all her relatives and placed them outside the camp of Israel. 24 They burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only the silver and gold, and articles of bronze and iron, they put into the treasury of the [k]house of the Lord. 25 However, Rahab the harlot and her father’s household and all she had, Joshua [l]spared; and she has lived in the midst of Israel to this day, for she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

26 Then Joshua made them take an oath at that time, saying, “Cursed before the Lord is the man who rises up and builds this city Jericho; with the loss of his firstborn he shall lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he shall set up its gates.” 27 So the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame was in all the land.


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[Atkinsmatt]

I found this recently and modified it some.

Praise the lord who trains my hands for war + my fingers for battle
Verses:
Psalm 144:1-2 says “Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle. He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.”
Psalm 18:2 says “The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.”
Proverbs 28:1 says “The wicked flee though no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.”

Devotion:
I’ve always loved the book of Psalms and the messages it shares, and there’s a few parts that really stick out to me. In Psalm 18, David is being beaten by Saul-I mean, really beaten- but the Lord “draws him out of deep waters” and rescues him from “the cords of death that entangled him”. You might be wondering “now why are you scaring us with talk about death and evil”.
And you’re a little right-that stuff is scary, and not exactly something that we like to talk about. But the reality is our soldiers face peril. They are put in dangerous situations. That’s just how it is. They have a dangerous job, one that is especially trying in this day and age of seemingly near-constant warfare. But I’ve realized that there’s a few things protecting our soldiers that make it easier not to worry as much.

First, they are well trained. All of those months in basic and AIT, all of those hours and days of other training, all of those bullets spent at the range, all of that stuff that sits on his vest-those things are all about preparing our soldiers to do their job, and do their job well. I also have faith in the soldier’s coworkers. I trust that the unit is set up to take care of business, and provide its soldiers with the tools they need to do their job as safety as possible. And I trust that God has His hand on the soldiers at all times. Does this mean that nothing bad can happen to him? No. I wish that were the case, but its not. But I do know that the soldier will do everything in his power to do his job well and to come home at night, and I know that the Lord is watching over all of them, and has our story written out for us already. Our soldiers have been called to do a hard job, a dangerous job, a thankless job, but they have not been called to it without preparation and protection.

Prayer:
Lord, You are strong and You are faithful. Thank you for helping prepare our soldiers for the tasks they face every day. You have knitted them together and specifically prepared their fingers for the battles they will face. You have created their hands to be capable of the wars they may see. And you have instilled a braveness and righteousness in their heart that allows them to carry out this calling each day. Thank you for creating them this way.

[Flyin6]

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