During World War II a young soldier named David Webster of Easy Company of the 101st Airborne wrote to his mother:
"Stop worrying about me. I joined the parachutists to
fight. I intend to fight. If necessary, I shall die fighting, but don’t worry
about this because no war can be won without young men dying. Those things
which are precious are saved only by sacrifice."
Scripture often refers to the Christian life as a war - a
spiritual battlefield. To answer the question of hymn writer Isaac Watts:
Must I be carried to the skies
On flowery beds of ease,
While others fought to win the prize
And sailed through
bloody seas?
There is no victory apart from sacrifice. Just as our
salvation was purchased at great cost, overcoming the enemy & walking in
the Spirit require that we be willing to give up some things in order to
triumph.
- ‘Band of Brothers’, Stephen E. Ambros. (ministry127.com)
“And so, dear brothers, I plead with you to give your bodies
to God. Let them be a living sacrifice, holy - the kind he can accept. When you
think of what he has done for you, is this too much to ask?” – Paul (Rom 12:1
TLB).
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