Men of war, in His army, appointed to fight,1
As His people prepared to flee their Egypt plight.
Through a wilderness they all would have to go,
To reach the place and nations who were God’s foe.
Centuries earlier God told His a friend, Abraham,
For these nations, He had a four hundred year program.2
It included time for them to repent and be spared,
Though He knew about this, not one of them really cared.
Fast forward ahead, these nations were now
As His people prepared to flee their Egypt plight.
Through a wilderness they all would have to go,
To reach the place and nations who were God’s foe.
Centuries earlier God told His a friend, Abraham,
For these nations, He had a four hundred year program.2
It included time for them to repent and be spared,
Though He knew about this, not one of them really cared.
Fast forward ahead, these nations were now
ripe for judgment.
So to them, from Egypt a great, new army would be sent.
But God encountered a curious problem.
His new army refused His, ‘Go fight!’ dictum.
You might say they were ‘conscientious objectors’,
After hearing reports from their ‘spy observers’.
So God delayed His plans to punish those wicked nations.
Then He created a force that had no such objections.3
Fast forward ahead, Israel then due for judgment.
So to it, Assyria and Babylon were sent.
No conscientious objectors in these invading troops!
Thus they dished out God’s punishment on
So to them, from Egypt a great, new army would be sent.
But God encountered a curious problem.
His new army refused His, ‘Go fight!’ dictum.
You might say they were ‘conscientious objectors’,
After hearing reports from their ‘spy observers’.
So God delayed His plans to punish those wicked nations.
Then He created a force that had no such objections.3
Fast forward ahead, Israel then due for judgment.
So to it, Assyria and Babylon were sent.
No conscientious objectors in these invading troops!
Thus they dished out God’s punishment on
Israel’s sinful bloops.4
Let’s fast forward ahead to the days in which we now live.
Conscientious objectors in God’s army, now furtive.
His army and battles are now very different,
From those into which His earlier armies were sent.
Today, His ‘Go fight!’ command is to spread
Let’s fast forward ahead to the days in which we now live.
Conscientious objectors in God’s army, now furtive.
His army and battles are now very different,
From those into which His earlier armies were sent.
Today, His ‘Go fight!’ command is to spread
His Word and message,
To make disciples of those gripped in a devilish scrimmage,
Then to live by faith, by which He is pleased,
Not allowing our flesh to be appeased.
Today, His objectors do not protest vocally.
Nor, as Israel did, do they object woefully.
Rather, they are simply quiet, always sidelined,
Appearing to Him to not at all be aligned.
If you are His conscientious objector today,
On the un-aligned sidelines, He’ll allow you to stay.
In days gone by, for such He had a ‘forty-year plan’.
Ummm…
To make disciples of those gripped in a devilish scrimmage,
Then to live by faith, by which He is pleased,
Not allowing our flesh to be appeased.
Today, His objectors do not protest vocally.
Nor, as Israel did, do they object woefully.
Rather, they are simply quiet, always sidelined,
Appearing to Him to not at all be aligned.
If you are His conscientious objector today,
On the un-aligned sidelines, He’ll allow you to stay.
In days gone by, for such He had a ‘forty-year plan’.
Ummm…
How might He respond today to your
‘haughty sphere
stand’?? 5
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1 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of The Lord -- to whom The Lord swore that He would not show them the land which The Lord had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, ‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’ (Joshua 5:6)
1 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of The Lord -- to whom The Lord swore that He would not show them the land which The Lord had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, ‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’ (Joshua 5:6)
2 Then He said to
Abram: ‘Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a
land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict
them four hundred years…But in the fourth generation they shall return here,
for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.’ (Genesis
15:13,16)
3 See: Numbers 14
4 See: 2 Kings 15,
2 Chronicles 36, and Ezekiel 23
5 Objections
perhaps not vocalized, but well hidden within your spirit or ‘spiritual sphere’,
yet governing your inaction to His call.
