This is an article I wrote for my monthly Spiritual Newsletter here at South Camp:
The Army defines personal courage as facing fears, danger or adversity, both physical and moral. Personal courage has long been associated with our Army. With physical courage, it is a matter of enduring physical duress and at times risking personal safety. Facing moral fear or adversity may be a long, slow process of continuing forward on the right path, especially if taking those actions is not popular with others. You can build your personal courage by daily standing up for and acting upon the things that you know are honorable. The question each soldier has to ask themselves is what standard do I use to determine what is honorable and moral. Or in other words, what do you consider as truth. Truth is the beginning point of everything. If there aren’t some things in your belief system that you absolutely know to be true, then everything else falls apart. When our founding fathers were establishing our Constitution and drawing up the Declaration of Independence, they turned to God and His word as the foundation of our new nation. When our founding fathers were led to build this nation upon the precepts of God’s word, they began to operate under the objective nature of God’s truth which stabilized our new nation, which brings me back to you, the individual Solider. How can you build your personal courage? By daily standing up for and acting upon the things that you know are honorable. The greatest General of all time and our first President George Washington prayed these words to congress shortly after the end of the Revolutionary War “direct my thoughts, words and work, wash away my sins in the immaculate Blood of the Lamb, and purge my heart by the Holy Spirit…Daily frame me more and more and more into the likeness of Thy Son Jesus Christ.” Fifty-two of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence were Christians, many of which possessed seminary degrees. These men possessed personal courage to stand up for the biblical and moral principles found in the Bible. I challenge you today to have the personal courage to ask yourself this question…what do I consider truth, God or myself?
The Army defines personal courage as facing fears, danger or adversity, both physical and moral. Personal courage has long been associated with our Army. With physical courage, it is a matter of enduring physical duress and at times risking personal safety. Facing moral fear or adversity may be a long, slow process of continuing forward on the right path, especially if taking those actions is not popular with others. You can build your personal courage by daily standing up for and acting upon the things that you know are honorable. The question each soldier has to ask themselves is what standard do I use to determine what is honorable and moral. Or in other words, what do you consider as truth. Truth is the beginning point of everything. If there aren’t some things in your belief system that you absolutely know to be true, then everything else falls apart. When our founding fathers were establishing our Constitution and drawing up the Declaration of Independence, they turned to God and His word as the foundation of our new nation. When our founding fathers were led to build this nation upon the precepts of God’s word, they began to operate under the objective nature of God’s truth which stabilized our new nation, which brings me back to you, the individual Solider. How can you build your personal courage? By daily standing up for and acting upon the things that you know are honorable. The greatest General of all time and our first President George Washington prayed these words to congress shortly after the end of the Revolutionary War “direct my thoughts, words and work, wash away my sins in the immaculate Blood of the Lamb, and purge my heart by the Holy Spirit…Daily frame me more and more and more into the likeness of Thy Son Jesus Christ.” Fifty-two of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence were Christians, many of which possessed seminary degrees. These men possessed personal courage to stand up for the biblical and moral principles found in the Bible. I challenge you today to have the personal courage to ask yourself this question…what do I consider truth, God or myself?
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