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A Distracted Soldier is a Dead Soldier

One of my favorite TV shows is The Unit. It’s about a special ops team within the Army who don’t officially exist. This show is a great mix between a war story and real life drama. Plenty of shooting and blowing stuff up, good times with comrades and family, and problems at home. The wives of The Unit pretty much stick together and take care of each other while the men are deployed. They don’t want their husbands worrying about them while they’re in a fight because “a distracted soldier is a dead soldier.” This saying holds true for the spiritual war we fight on a daily basis.

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What Would They Say?

There is perhaps no greater visible example of sin’s effect on the world than death. It is the most visible act of separation that we can see, when a person’s spirit leaves the body. In our fallen, broken world, it is a perpetual example of the separation from God that those who aren’t in Christ endure now, and will endure for eternity if they do not repent. It is such a clear picture that it shocks us when someone we know dies. We get so used to not really thinking about the totality of sin’s effect, that when someone dies we are jolted as this reality forces itself upon us. As such, death is also a great indicator of our spiritual status as well.

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