Heaven Land Devotions - The Book-Food of Soldiers

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We have now finished with the year 2024 and are now facing the beginning of 2025. Like all the years of my life when I reach the end of a year I cannot help but review the year. I think about all the things I could have done differently, the failures, mistakes.

Then I think about all the good things that happened in between the disappointments and hard places.

As I get older there is a satisfaction in the "forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Phil.3:13-14.

Along with that there seems to be what feels like the "thirty minutes of silence in heaven," speaking of the here-and-now. Since the holidays ended until the coming of the new year there is a kind of silent limbo. I think this is the very first time in this life that really no one knows what is coming.

Jesus has led us this far. He has allowed all of us to go through everything we have gone through. He led us through this wilderness called earth till now. The days of our lives in reading His word throughout the years has become the book-food of His soldiers.

We have been nourished up in His word and we are now ready for orders and commands. I sense there will be things coming upon this earth that will demand spiritual courage and fortitude.

Take this down time in forsaking this world and all of its entanglements. Prepare yourselves in the Lord, keep in His word and you will never be found walking in the darkness, and of false prophets and lying wonders. Stay in His light.

"For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light."

Psalm 36:9.

"The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty, and so is the Christian. The very nature of the calling precludes a life of ease." - William Gurnall