“Stand at Arms! Sir”

Officers and men on duty in the trenches have to be ready for service at any moment. Neither the boots nor the clothes must be taken off for an hour. At any moment the attack may come, and it must not find them unprepared. When the tired officers have had their rest, and the time has come for them to resume duty, the awakening cry is, “Stand at arms! sir.” Then sleep has to be banished and the ceaseless watch resumed.
And Paul, the great sentinel of God, speaks the awakening word today to every Christian: “Stand at arms! Christian.” He cries in the darkness of a world’s sin, with all the hosts of evil arrayed against the living God; in these perilous times he cries, “Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.” “Awake!” “Arise!” Be alive and active in the interests of God. Line the trenches for God; look through the periscope of faith for the coming foe. “Be strong in the Lord.” “Watch and pray.” “Fight the good fight of faith.” Say as you run to meet the enemy of your souls, “If God be for us, who can be against us?” and “In all things more than conquerors, through Him who loveth us.”