Prayers for Protectors

     As I sat in one of my boss's offices listening to a webinar, I gazed out the window to see a man get out of a large gray van with fatigues and a flak jacket on. My first thought was, "What is that place?" Since my office doesn't have windows, I rarely see out on that side of the building. My boss later said they sometimes have guys on the roof with rifles. Really, and no one thought to mention this to me, the lowly new employee?
     The reality was that the building houses Homeland Security personnel thus the reason for men with guns on their belts, which I had never noticed before today. I liked the idea of them being next door, once I got over the threat of them being next door. Sometimes weapons in the hands of the "good guys" can keep the "bad guys" away.
     I'm grateful for the men and women of the border patrol, military, police force, and security that are willing to put on weapons of war and do battle to keep our country free. I pray tonight that God will protect our protectors and most of all work in their lives so that they will choose Him as their Lord and Savior. 
     Then one day, these brave men and women will not only have worldly weapons, but the most mighty weapons of all, God on their side fighting off the very demons of hell coming to take away their souls and send them to perish eternally in hell. Not because God doesn't love them, He does, and is the ultimate protector. But God is a God of choice, He will not force Himself upon anyone. (James 4:⁷ Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸ Come near to God and he will come near to you.)

   2 Corinthians 10:³ For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. ⁴ The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.