When we think of bravery, we typically think of soldiers, fighting battles and standing against the enemy.   We all face challenges, but few of us consider whether we are brave or not.

In the battle between good and evil, the ‘soldiers of Christ’ are standing against evil!   They are bold and brave in their fight for Christ and His teachings against Satan and his demons.

To be a soldier for Jesus Christ is to face a different type of wound…a wound to the spirit.    The spirit of Jesus Christ dwells within His own, those who profess Him as LORD and SAVIOR.

To be brave, to stand firm in the instructions of Jesus, and allow His direction within ones life;  this courage is powerful, and fulfilling!   He sees all sides, and blesses according to the needs of his servants!

He will instruct anyone of His servants to do something that seems unnatural.    Yet, when fulfilled reveals itself to be a robe of splendor to his assigned servant!    This is Jesus Christ!   He adorns his own in ‘robes of splendor’, because they have chosen to become his servant, his friend, and his beloved.   They have chosen to ‘trust’ him above themselves.   He delights in blessing his own, and waits for all to come to him.   His love is everlasting!   From age to age, Jesus Christ reigns as King and His servants are His beloved!

To be His beloved, call upon Jesus Christ to come into your heart, and He will!  He will bless you and refine you and love you beyond all human understanding.

Book of   2 Corinthians : Chapter 5 verses 1-10

1) “Indeed, we know that when the earthly tent in which we dwell is destroyed we have a dwelling provided for us by God, a dwelling in the heavens, not made by hands but to last forever.   2) We groan while we are here, even as we yearn to have our heavenly habitation envelop us.   3) This it will, provided we are found clothed and not naked.   4) While we live in our present tent we groan; we are weighed down because we do not wish to be stripped naked but rather to have the heavenly dwelling envelop us, so that what is mortal may be absorbed by life.   5) God has fashioned us for this very thing and has given us the Spirit as a pledge of it.   6) Therefore we continue to be confident.   We know that while we dwell in the body we are away from the LORD.   7) We walk by faith, not by sight.   8) I repeat, we are full of confidence and would much rather be away from the body and at home with the LORD.   9) This being so, we make it our aim to please him whether we are with him or away from him.   10) The lives of all of us are to be revealed before the tribunal of Christ so that each one may recieve his recompense, good or bad, are according to his life in the body.”

Book of 2 Corinthians Chapter 5 verse 20-21

20) “This makes us ambassadors for Christ, God as it were appealing through us.   We implore you, in Christ’s name: be reconciled to God!   21) For our sakes God made him who did not know sin, to be sin, so that in him we might become the very holiness of God.”