Revolutionary War

Today my mind drifts to revolution, to that unruly group of Englishman who decided America would be free. What were they thinking? Has any body stopped to wrap there mind around there situation. Its like the state of Ohio declaring war on the United States, saying we will be free. What exactly where they thinking. They were out manned and out gunned. Where were they going to get their supplies from. What were those first officers thinking, those legislators that signed the first documents. Surely they must have thought there chances of winning where slim. Going against the British Army at that time the most formidable army on earth. They must have considered the difficulty and the hardships of the battles to come. This war was going to be fought in their cities, among their homes and in their front yards. Their houses would be burned, their children put in danger. What where they thinking. They must of thought of their families, their children and their future. Where they doing the right thing, they must have woke up in the night with the thought. What happens if they loose this men who signed the dotted line and every soldier in that army would be executed for treason, not to mention their houses burned and children left desolate. What about the average soldier, the simple farmer who picked up his musket and left his family and his farm to fight a war in which he might not win and from which he may never return. These risks were so great.

It would have been easier to hope for better times, to push for their case in the British Legislator. Maybe they could send another appeal to the king. Maybe. However they felt as though they had exhausted every possible option and that the only option left was revolution. They drew a line in the sand and said we are not going to allow any more and they fought for it. Many of them lost their lives, many of them lost their homes and their fortunes. What did they Gain? They gained the greatest country on earth. Our freedoms, our wealth, our success is here because they paid the price, because they took the risks to build something better.

I say this for one simple reason. What are we willing to risk. What chances do we take. Not for the U.S. or for any other country that we may preside in but for the Kingdom. The Kingdom of God. How far are we willing to go. Where are we drawing the line in sand. Are we willing to risk our lives, or every comfort in them, to put are families at risk to build something better. Are we willing to fight that kind of war for the Kingdom of God. Those who choose to fight are a part of something better. As for those men in the revolutionary war their names and faces are not all remembered but their sacrifice is evident everything we do and in everything we touch. None of what we do, this life we all live would not be possible with out those who were willing to fight. So it will be in the Kingdom of God, all the peace, the comforts, the freedoms and the joys will all be possible because of those who were willing to fight. Matthew 11:12 "12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force." Live the adventure.