who trains my hands for war,
my fingers for battle.
2 He is my loving God and my fortress,
my stronghold and my deliverer,
my shield, in whom I take refuge,
who subdues peoples under me.
3 O LORD, what is man that you care for him,
the son of man that you think of him?
4 Man is like a breath;
his days are like a fleeting shadow.
5 Part your heavens, O LORD, and come down;
touch the mountains, so that they smoke.
6 Send forth lightning and scatter {the enemies};
shoot your arrows and rout them.
7 Reach down your hand from on high;
deliver me and rescue me
from the mighty waters,
from the hands of foreigners
8 whose mouths are full of lies,
whose right hands are deceitful.
9 I will sing a new song to you, O God;
on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,
10 to the One who gives victory to kings,
who delivers his servant Josiah1 from the deadly sword.
11 Deliver me and rescue me
from the hands of foreigners
whose mouths are full of lies,
whose right hands are deceitful.
1 The Bible says David but I Remember it as something God does for me
the first 11 verses of Psalm 144 keep being playing though my mind. I pray that God would train my hands for battle, and that what I do over there would matter over here.
When something big is coming, like a trip to another part of the world, something that you know will change your like, to the point that at some times you want to back down because you know how good your life is now, that is, until you tell your self that God has a plan and that whatever happens it is for his plan. This filling is one of the most madding fillings you can have. expectation, anticipation, dread, fear, all flowing in your mind at the same time. It is at times like this that you have to let go. God knows best. As soon as you lose sight of that all the filling, and double guessing starts back up.
Besides my filling I am hoping to get promoted before I leave, all I have left to do is a PT test and one more online test. I will let people know when this happens.
God Bless, PVT Josiah A. Wallis
Great reflections on God's purposes in taking you where He wants you. I appreciate your commitment to Him and that you are writing it down. It will be a testimony to yourself and to others, in the future, of how what you are doing and why--especially when you might be questioning it in the middle of infantry training!
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