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We'll Be Heroes
by Major Stephen Court
(reprint from JAC#17)

 

A CAPACITY crowd bustles in the stadium. Generations of saints - famous greathearts and unknowns - mingle. The air is bristling with expectancy. The conflict has intensified since their day. The war is peaking to its eternal climax and the veterans are cheering us on (see Hebrews 12:1). Daniel and Josiah are shoulder-to-shoulder with John Wesley and Charles Grandison Finney, a few rows up from the Army's own Railton and Catherine, all cheering and praying for us to step it up.

 

As the old song says:

We'll be heroes, we'll be heroes,

When the battle is fierce;

When the raging storm louder grows

Will our courage increase

By the cross.

 

They gave their lives to this cause and left us a legacy of example, inspiration, and instruction. The world was not worthy of many of them (see Hebrews 11:38) and now they are looking to us to seal the victory.

 

Are we interested in being heroes? 'The shields of his soldiers are red,' says the word of God (Nahum 2:3 New International Version). Red with blood: blood from the enemy and the blood of the Lamb. Faith is our shield. Until we exercise it in confrontation with the enemy we have no defence. We will have no wounds but we will have no victories either.

 

We shall conquer, we shall conquer

Through the blood of the Lamb;

And we ne'er will retreat, though we die,

Till the conquest we've won

By the cross.

 

The Bible gives us our orders: 'Get up, you officers, oil the shields!' (Isaiah 21:5). Who is going to rise up? Who will attack, with polished faith, to demolish the enemy?

 

We are rising, we are rising,

And the foe shall be driven;

As warriors brave let us sing:

We have victory and Heaven

By the cross.

 

Our heroes wished they could be in our place. William Booth prophesied that Heaven's saints dream of being in our situation, willing temporarily to pass up the pleasures of paradise for the glory of one last battle. But they can't. It's up to us.

 

When we're dying, when we're dying

In the arms of his love,

On the wings of faith we'll ascend

To the palace of God

By the cross.

 

There's the battle-cry. It's a call for heroes. An invocation for wholly devoted warriors to engage the enemy in the name of our great commander-in-chief by the power of God, with the weapons of righteousness (see 2 Corinthians 6:7). I don't want to let Daniel and Josiah down. I'm going all out for Wesley and Finney. I'll die to please Railton and Catherine. I'll win for Jesus. Won't you join me? We'll be heroes!

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

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