"Operating forces should be organized for warfighting and then adapted for peacetime rather than vice versa."
Assume war in your planning and preparation and adapt to peace. Too many Christians assume peace and then are forced to adapt to war.
Jeremiah 6:14
They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.
Blind to the reality of battle or offended by the prospect of having to fight, many Christians paint over mold and call the problem solved. They don't want to think about dirty things like sweat and blood and tears and fear. Those would require real faith. But the fetid fumes of warfare like smelling salts threaten to wake them up, so they cry, "Peace" in the streets in order to diffuse the nervous energy of impending doom.
Ezekiel 13:10
They have led my people astray by saying, "Peace," when there is no peace, and since when a flimsy wall is being built, they plaster it with whitewash.
You cannot whitewash a collapsing wall. It doesn't need a better PR department, it needs the violence of demolition and the diligence of construction: dust and mortar and sweat and brick and work.
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