2 Samuel 10:12
Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the Lord do that which seemeth him good.
Nehemiah 4:14
Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
If Christian men do not fight for their homes, they cannot win the city and if they do not fight for the city, they cannot expect to keep their homes.
But either way, we are called to play the men on behalf of our people, our cities, our brothers and sisters, our sons and daughters, our wives, our lives, our homes, and our heritage. And having given our best on behalf of our beloved, we are to entrust what follows to the Beloved.
While we do not know what results may seem good to Him, we do know what means He has deemed good: we should be of good courage, be men and be glad to assume the sacrificial responsibility appropriate to our station; we should employ our strength for those entrusted to us, place ourselves between the danger and our beloved, and at the end of the day or in the very end if it should come to that, close our eyes in faith, trusting our day's obedience to His designs.
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