Everyone chooses to serve someone or something

   When I was a young man of sixteen years of age one of my greatest desires was to reach eighteen, because that was the age required to join our military services. The desire was so strong that I got in a big hurry and when I had reached seventeen I went to the recruiting office and tried to enlist in the United States Army. I was given some papers to fill out and told that my parents would have to sign in agreement before they could enlist me. My mother got really angry at me for doing such a thing and both my parents refused to sign for me to go.

I waited until I became eighteen and returned to the recruiting office this time they allowed me to go through the procedures of enlisting, but when I got to the physical part I failed and was turned down because of a childhood sickness that I had had since birth.

I was very disappointed that I was not considered healthy enough for service to my country. Many of my family members had served and were serving honorably but I would never have this opportunity.

I look back now and understand that it was God directing my life in a different direction.

I married my wife and we had our first son when I was twenty one. It was then that I began to think seriously about where I was going in life.

The life I was living wasn’t the best for me neither for my wife. I was bringing heartache, suffering and shame to my wife myself and my little son because of the sins that controlled my mind my heart and my body.

During the first three years of our marriage my wife and I separated from each other many times because of my heavy drinking and carousing. We were at the brink of divorce when I realized that I did not want to lose my family and things would have to change with me if I was going to keep them in my life.

One Saturday night a short while after I begin to awaken from the sad condition I was in my wife and I were invited to attend a church service at a little street mission in the city of New Albany, Indiana.

It was that night my life was changed forever God spoke to my heart and invited me to enlist in His army. My duty from that night on would be to fight the enemy of all souls Satan and the enemies of the kingdom of Almighty God.

When God’s holy Spirit brought deep conviction of my sins to my heart I willingly repented and said yes Lord here am I please make me a soldier of your army I want to live and devote my life a service to others sharing with them your love mercy and grace.

I found that God’s requirements for service were not like man’s military requirements.

God received me just like I was sick body, sick mind all covered with sin and wickedness. He forgave my sins, He healed my sicknesses, and He cleansed my mind and gave me a new heart to serve Him in this wicked world that we live in.

Since then He has blessed my life and given me and my family so many wondrous miracles that to speak of all of them would take more time and fill more books than I could ever have time to write.

I am no longer disappointed that I could not serve in our United States military because I was chosen of Almighty God to serve my fellow human beings in a much higher calling.

Unlike the military services of our country when a soldier gets too old to be of service he is retired.

I was a young man when I volunteered for service to the Lord now I am an old man my body is weak my mind is sound and my heart is strong and God renews my inward man day by day.

From my service in the army of God I will not retire I will be promoted to higher service one day in heaven.

I will someday hear the voice of my lord say,

His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

Matthew 25:21(KJV)

Revelation 19:14 (KJV)

¹⁴ And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

Revelation 19:19 (KJV)

¹⁹ And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.