Being a soldier for Jesus Christ

2Ti_2:3  Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 
2Ti_2:4  No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. 

 Being a warrior in the spiritual battles that have engulfed the world takes an understanding of our relationship with our Captain as well as a working knowledge of the real issues, our weapons and of our enemy's devices. We, as Christians do not resort to carnal weapons but to spiritual ones.

 2Co_10:4  (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 

Our sword is the Word of God. To call non violent Christians "passivists" is wrong. No, we are not passive or at least we should not be. We should be active in the battles through prayer, witnessing, worship, and boldly standing for Christ in our daily life. The following excerpt was sent to me by sister Stacy Huerta

"I will be soldierly at all times. The chief requirement of the soldier is the surrender of his will. Other things are irrelevant. The disposition of his time, his duties, and his responsibilities is entirely in the hands of his commander, and they are not his business. If Christ has my will, He will also have my body, my mind, my strength, my ambitions, my inclinations, my attitudes, in short, my all. The will is the key. When I am tempted it is in the will that the victory will be won or lost. Temptation gives me alternatives; I can submit and lose or resist and win. There is ample power for either. Christ gives me power to resist; my old nature gives me power to submit. But the key is the will. If I will to resist, Christ will empower me as He has promised; if I will to submit, I only need to let the old nature take over. Whoever has my will is my master. I therefore must decide daily, hourly: shall Christ have my will, or shall it be some other master: The decision is instantaneous; the results are eternal."