Wholehearted Committment

As we focused this past Sunday, August 30 at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, on Deuteronomy 20:5-9, we see the Lord telling men on the battlefield to go home. Since God wants undivided hearts on the battlefield, he tells some to go home to be with their new wives, live in their new houses, and enjoy their new vineyards. God knows how weak we are and that our hearts aren't always undivided. Yet there's no condemnation in this passage because God is not desperate. He sends some to war and some home. For us, there are many, varied facets to building his kingdom: Some of us are on the "front lines" (like serving as a missionary in Africa or telling college students the Good News), but those of us who love our families and our neighbors are advancing the kingdom, too.