Jehovah Sabaoth
“Aunt Heather, come shoot me! Let’s play bad guys!” My nephew’s big smile pasted across his face didn’t match the gravity of the words he spoke. But that’s OK, he’s 3. He loves playing shoot-guns, and setting up soldier-guys, and even occasionally pretending to get shot (although usually it’s the other person who dies, because his aim is apparently perfect). Yesterday when he said it, a shiver went through me because while he only knows war as a game, I know it’s very real. And right now, it’s sitting at our doorstep. And for a moment, trauma spoke terrible things to my mind. For a quick second, fear tried to anchor it’s way into my heart. I remember my war and I don’t want a single soul to have to do that. But war is a fact in our world. We can hate it but it’s still very real. How then do we deal with it and not fall into fear, terror, or hatred? We must remember that the God we serve is a warrior. “The Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the Lord is his name!” Hosea 12: 5. Jehovah ...