“A CALL TO DUTY”

I WOULD LIKE TO START BY READING A PASSAGE IN THE BIBLE, IN THE BOOK OF JOHN CHAPTER 15 VERSE 16 – “YOU DID NOT CHOOSE ME, BUT I CHOSE YOU AND APPOINTED YOU THAT YOU SHOULD BEAR FRUIT, AND THAT YOUR FRUIT SHOULD REMAIN, THAT WHATEVER YOU ASK THE FATHER IN MY NAME HE MAY GIVE YOU.”
GENERAL CHARLES DE GAULLE, ONE OF THE MOST QUOTED FRENCH GENERAL IN MILITARY BOOKS AND CIRCLES, COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MORE PRECISE WHEN HE SAID, THAT MEN WHO TAKE THE NOBLE PROFESSION OF ARMS, SUBMIT OF THEIR OWN FREE WILL TO LIFE OF PERPETUAL CONSTRAINT. HE FURTHER NOTES THAT IT TAKES BUT A COMMAND TO DISPLACE HIM, TO MOVE HIM, AND TO MAKE HIM DO MANY THINGS, EVEN AT THE COST OF HIS LIFE.
GOD’S CALLING IS NOBLER THAN THAT OF SOLDIERY, FOR WE DO NOT SERVE MEN BUT THE KING OF KINGS AND THE LORD OF LORDS, THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. AND YET, IN ALL HIS SPLENDOR AND MAJESTY, HE LOVED US AND GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON TO DIE FOR OUR SINS THAT WE MAY RECONCILED BACK TO HIM. THEREFORE HE DESERVES GREA...