What tune plays out its rhythm in your waking heart? Upon which hill does your Spirit stand heralding, defending or weeping the passage or pontification of your internal melody? Where is the music guiding your parade? What field of battle plays your hymn’s proclaiming the gathering of your troops to win the day for valor? Where is the song of your heart and to which end does it point?

To be found faithful is to be accounted with the Spirit that made all things. Earnest and steadfast describe the basis from which a man is so inclined. To be there when all else should be expected to run, ignore or avoid. This is the man who wants Sovereign determinism to counter all that assaults in this temporary plane. When all else fails and falters Faithful is found fiery and true.

Are we faithful when our children have need, do we ignore the wife’s need or demand? Our maker never leaves, fails or ignores. Certainly there are times when the answer NO is appropriate and expected, but that is the nature of a loving Dad who comes to aid and discipline as needed to guide, moor and prepare. Where is the space for them who have no such calling upon their soldered heart?

Family, is the catch phrase of those who surround in unconditional love and may be stolen by insurgents who will provide for yours when you would not. Faithful is to do that which is not personally rewarding as sacrificial understanding of putting those we love or the nation we defend before our own lives, pockets or breath. Having lost the benefit of Family we search far and wide for substitute never thinking that we in fact have left that which maintain the bond of human glue.

In a quest for peace and understanding thereof, we must account for the provision in steadfast defense of those things we were given in Divine provision. There is no substitution for Family whether by blood of birth or rebirth found. No greater gift then the support and security of those who will surround you no matter what the trial. Something that never leaves is perhaps greatest gift, not of weakness but of resemblance to glory.

Our God is the anchor to which all things may remain attached throughout storm or rage of war. He will never leave nor abandon on field of battle, despair or captivity. This is the model from which we launch our campaign into the world. A faithfulness that is impossible to copy without the indwelling of the “Earnest of our Salvation” living within procuring us the impossible. I do not care to whom I have chosen allegiance for it is in my resolve to defend them that the reward be found. Are we faithful to God, Country and Family? Perhaps that should be our focal point of greatest concentration when seeking to return to those things that kindled the fire of greatness within US.