band of brothers

I have been watching band of brothers and in the 3rd part there is a scene where a private who has frozen in the heat of the battle earlier is talking to an officer, and the officer said something like:


The sooner you accept that you are already dead, than the sooner you'll able to function like a real/true soldier


Now a real soldier.... a real soldier doesn't freeze in the battle, a real soldier doesn't turn and run away,

A real soldier follows the orders of his commander, a real soldier fights even tho he is scared to death, a real soldier looks out for his comrades, a real soldier pulls their injured to safety (even when there are bullets flying around), helping them, a real soldier relies on his comrades, a real soldier does what is need to complete the orders of the commander.



Does this sound familiar.... We are called to be Soldiers in Jesus' army. He is the commander, we are to obey His orders only. Some times those orders are things that we think that we are unable to do, and scare the crap out of us, however Christ will help us. We are also called to look out for each other, to encourage, correct (in love), help those that are weaker... we are told that we need each other, in fact we are to confess to each other to be healed. God has created us to live in community, we need each other...



We are also called to be dead to this world, in that we are not to let this world around us to squeeze us into their box, or pull us down to it's level. This means that we are to live in a way that we don't care what the world thinks, it is only what God thinks that is important... We live for Him and Him alone. Our focus is to be one Christ..... In focusing on Christ, all of this world (as the song says) will grow strangely dim. Which will allow us to follow the orders that we are given...
Lets seek after Christ, to have a complete focus on Him, so that we will be so focused that nothing will distract us from following the instruction/orders that Christ give us.