Living A Legacy broadcast for June 23, 2000
Dr. Crawford Loritts

 Have you really embraced the fact that you really are considered to be a soldier in God’s army?

 I spoke at a men’s conference the other day and I was deeply moved by something that was passed out and read.  The author of this is anonymous but the message is powerful.

I am a volunteer in this army and I am enlisted for eternity.  I will either retire in this army at the rapture or die in this army; but I will not get out, sell out, be talked out, or pushed out.  I am faithful, reliable, capable and dependable.  If my God needs me, I am there.  If He needs me in the Sunday school, to teach the children, work with the youth, help adults or just sit and learn, He can use me because I am there.

I am a soldier.  I am not a baby.  I do not need to be pampered, petted, primed up, pumped up, picked up or pepped up.  I am a soldier.  No one has to call me, remind me, write me, visit me, entice me, or lure me.  I am a soldier.  I am not a wimp.  I am in place, saluting my King, obeying His orders, praising His name, and building His kingdom!  No one has to send me flowers, gifts, food, cards, candy or give me handouts.  I do not need to be cuddled, cradled, cared for, or catered to.  I am committed.  I cannot have my feelings hurt bad enough to turn me around.  I cannot be discouraged enough to turn me aside.  I cannot lose enough to cause me to quit.

When Jesus called me into this army, I had nothing.  If I end up with nothing, I will still come out ahead.  I will win.  My God has and will continue to supply all of my need.  I am more than a conqueror.  I will always triumph.  I can do all things through Christ.  The devil cannot defeat me.  People cannot disillusion me.  Weather cannot weary me.  Sickness cannot stop me.  Battles cannot beat me.  Money cannot buy me.   Governments cannot silence me and hell cannot handle me.  I am a soldier.  Even death cannot destroy me.  For when my Commander calls me from this battlefield, He will promote me to Captain and then allow me to rule with Him.  I am a soldier in the army, and I’m marching, claiming victory.  I will not give up.  I will not run around.  I am a soldier, marching heaven bound.

 Boy what a statement.  Paul put it this way in 2 Timothy chapter 2 verses 3 and 4; “Suffer hardship with me as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.  No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.”  We have been enlisted in God’s army and we are soldiers.

 In fact, that’s what I want you to remember today.  You are a soldier.  You have been given an assignment and we have to follow orders.

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