Advancing without opposition

In military strategy, there is a methodology for advancing your lines with minimal risk to your troops.  Essentially, you fire from under cover in order to suppress enemy action and you advance your fortifications towards their lines.  If you've ever seen Last of the Mohicans, this is what the French are doing to the British fort.  It is slow, labor-intensive, and extremely difficult to counter.


I find that I have spent most of my life growing in this way.  I am a pathologically late bloomer.  I never spoke baby talk, my first words were complete sentences.  I read aloud very little until I could read sentences fluently.  I never dated until I was looking for a wife.  I don't chase jobs I'm not very qualified for.  And I've never pushed back really really hard against the devil and his snares.

I hope it is wisdom for me to see that I can move faster to retake ground against the wiles of the devil.  I believe that through the atonement of Christ, I can gain the wisdom and perception to move myself and my family forward until we are standing where He needs us.  Sometimes God commands movement, and when that is the case even the slightest pause can be disobedient.  But once we've moved to where He needs us, often the command is to hold, and there even the slightest move can be disobedient.

I see God in my life.  I feel His urging to move.  I can also sense that it will soon be time to stand.  I hope that we can hold in the coming days.