War Unprepared.
Hey! Long time no Blogged. Haha.
OK! I'll share about something I heard in my discipleship group.
There is this guy...oh by the way he just died and my DG leader is invited for his memorial.
Anyway, this guy is some big spiritual giant but everything did not actually started that way. He in fact never took the bible seriously. Till as day, went he attend a christian fellowship. They had this Ice Breaker. Where everybody have to recite a verse. So naturally he panicked. He only know John 3:16.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life."
Well things took a worse turn when someone before him recited John 3:16. He's reputation is at stake. He's some pastor's son and a youth leader. So there are some expectations from him and not forgetting that there are forfeits in a game. Fortunately or by God's grace, he managed to come up with one when it is his turn.
Wanna guess what verse is that?
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1
Haha...the group broke to laughter but that is still a verse so he is saved.
But it made him think. He was unprepared. Unprepared without God's Words.
The next day, he went on to work. It was the time of the first world war. The day was the day the japan bombard pearl harbor. The Americans were subjected to 31 minutes of bombing. They were sitting ducks. Unable to retaliate. The reason, they were unprepared. Their planes, were well lined...so well that the Japanese can easily and neatly bombed all away without much effort. If the American could have got to their planes, they would have turned the tides as they had better machines.
But they were unprepared.
This guy, he is suppose to man the anti air gun. However, he cannot carry out his duty...because there aren't any live round. He have the gun but have not the bullets. So his team was panicking and he ran in the midst of the bombing to look for the live rounds. When he finally found it, the ware house door was jammed due to lack of use.
So there was 31 minutes of uninterrupted Japanese bombing on Pearl Harbor that day.
At the end, he sat beside the anti air gun, With a bible in his hand. His' friends, some injured, some dead. The damage is huge. Because of unpreparedness,his battalion is almost wiped out.
that day, he made a vow to never be unprepared. Not only in the worldly warfare but in the spiritual warfare. He saw the link between his lack of bible knowledge and his unpreparedness. He saw the fatality. He saw the possibility of that in his spiritual life.
And we know the evil one prowls around like as roaring lion, waiting to devour. If we are not prepared with God's words. When the enemy strikes, ouch.
So Christians, read your bible.