Pilgrim Soldier

Commissioner Joe Noland has written a post on his new blog which he advises reading with “tongue-in-cheek”. I think that he has an incredibly valid point though!

Having a blog makes it very easy to jump on the band-wagon and start using the medium as an opportunity to complain about the issues you choose to cover. As I read back over my own posts I can see this tendency on more than one occasion, and so I take this chance to beg forgiveness from anyone I might have upset.

The Commissioner goes on and suggests that we should stop complaining and start a revolution. Is everything in the Church perfect? No of course it isn’t! Is everything in the Army perfect? Certainly not, but then it is led by humans! Humans who try to seek God’s will, but imperfect humans nonetheless.

The thing is though is that we are not called to follow humans, although this often seems to be what ends up happening. We are called to follow the one perfect example of what living in God’s Kingdom is like. We are called to follow Jesus. As we look as His teaching then we can’t fail to see the inherent revolutionary nature of it.

So here and now I pledge to stop complaining and I’ll try to use this blog to encourage a revolution in thinking so that I, and others, join the only Revolution that is truly going to change the world!