The ''Unit Replacements''

 For most soldiers on active duty during war, depending on the country, a soldier is required to go on tour (at the war front) for about 12-18months. After the successful months of service on tour, they are required to rest and sent back to their family to recover from the trauma of war and to be able to blend back into the society. During each soldier’s tour, they are required to serve in a unit (Unit-defined as a group of military personnel organized as a subdivision of a larger body). It is the unit members that the soldier will relate and associate with until his tour is finished.

During those moments, he may have issues with others or quarrel or even fight with other ranking soldiers, but one thing is sure, when the enemy strikes their camp or when they attack the enemy, each unit member will put aside their differences and focus on taking the ground from the enemy or demobilizing them. Full focus and attention is required at this moment because their life depends on it and more so the integrity, image and advancement of the country they are representing will be at stake.

One thing is sure after 12months or more months of tour,  the soldiers will need to return home and they will be a need for replacements, that is new unit members will need to come and take over from the war ravaged unit presently serving. If they are not replaced, there is a high tendency they will be psychologically fatigued and weary from the war, hence low morale which may lead to loosing of grounds to the enemy and ultimately loosing the war.

In addition talking about replacements in a unit,  a soldier can be replaced when killed by enemy fire or attack by a new recruit or old hands who may have just finished  is rest period. The whole idea about a unit is that the work/mission must not lag due to the absence of one and must be quickly replaced for effective performance.

 The life of a man, his wife and family can be compared or likened to a soldier and the unit he serves in. In most cases, every unit in an Army is tasked with a mission which every unit member must understand and work towards accomplishing at every cost within the ‘’Books’’ because their entire life and the integrity and image of the mother country depends on it. The captain of the unit always makes it a point of responsibility to bring back his soldiers back home; he will normally plan with his officer in the unit so that every one can be abreast of what is at stake and how each one is to execute the mission. No matter how the unit fights or disagree or even when the commander does not like a face or two in his unit; one thing is sure they will stick together and fight together.

The man and woman must understand they have been charged with the responsibility of serving in Gods Army. This is not about Christianity here but about the way God established the family institution from the beginning. The man who is the commander must learn to work with his official to see to it that the Gods purpose on earth be fulfilled. Most families are damaged today because they are not working as a unit. The man is visionless, the wife is not cooperative and the children are out of order.

The family is designed by God to stick together and work together; we must share the same views and values. The man must understand clearly what he wants out of life, what he wants out of a woman and what he wants out of a marriage. You see, every unit in the Army knows and understands their mission and it is from this they strategize. Until men sit down to ask them selves the questions above; they will still continue to be issues and problems in our relationships. God does not fail and can never fail. It is mans responsibility to understand Gods purpose, work in it and manifest it.

The society has failed today because the family has failed. The family unit simply has nothing to offer the world which we must dominate. The man who cannot take dominion in his family life cannot effectively take dominion in the world today. To re-emphasize again, the man must know what his assignment is and strategize on how to accomplish it.

The bible says he that finds a wife finds a good thing. Sometimes most unit commanders have the privilege of handpicking officers they will like to work with. In most cases when given this privilege, they pick the most skilled, qualified and more importantly those with the field experience to get the mission done. In a similar way, the man as the advantage of hand picking the woman (officer) he would like to work with, he as the divine responsibility of helping himself with an officer who will help him carry out the mission successfully.

Our mission is to transform the society, our country, even the world using ourselves as sure examples. The bible calls us light of the world and salt of the earth; this means that we have value to give and service to render humanity. Man must choose right and discretely with the understanding of ultimate purpose and assignment an officer who must cooperate together with him the commander to serve the unit.

 The commander is a serving soldier himself and would also need to rest after finishing his tour of duty and hand over to the unit replacements. However the success of the unit replacements will be based on how much work those who they are taking over from has been able to do and how much information they have been able to pass down to them. For instance, if the commander experienced much attack from the enemy from a particular area over the months of service, he would be able to inform or debrief in military terms the replacements areas to focus on and how to tackle the enemy. This will simply bring cheap success over the enemy.

Our society has failed to day because fathers/mothers have not been able to hand over timeless and life transforming values to their children. We ignorantly set up our children to fail the society. Fathers have not been able to equip their replacements for the future; fathers have not been able to position their children for the next agenda and mighty wave of God. For it is written ‘’…the glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts’’ (Hag 2:9).

The glory of this present generation should be far higher and well spoken of if the scripture is to be made referenced to. If fathers were respectful in the old days then there children should be more respectful and not more ludicrous in their school of thoughts. The truth is that we make our replacement; that is our children, fight battles of life they shouldn’t be fighting. If the commander has defeated the enemy, they would be no reason for the replacements to fight the battle again.

Parents hardly take time to teach their children. In most cases we leave the training of our children to school teachers or Sunday teacher which cannot suffice for the vacuum of information they will need in this life to continually overcome.

Our children are our replacements, they must take over from us and as worthy commanders and officer we must pass over to them what it takes to survive those 12-18months of their tour, we must lay proper foundation for them and prepare them for the battle they must fight themselves and not us. God demand this from us.

’’ …And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up…’’  (Deu 6:7)

 A new replacement unit naturally assumes the glory of the previous unit, even though they may not have fought physically to defeat the enemy the former Army did. The bile says ‘’…Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate…’’  (Psa 127:3-5)

God understands the importance of replacements that was why he commanded that they should be thought in his way and he also understands how an arrow works in the hands of the mighty. For instance, a man can stand a long distance away and shoot an arrow into places where he is not standing; in the same understanding, our replacements are our projection in to the future and tool of impartation in the future. Just as an arrow that goes ahead of its shooter to wreck havoc or to do the purpose of its shooter.

The only hope of the society is in our replacements. Until we see them the way God sees them, then the future is not guaranteed.

We must make conscious efforts to sharpen our arrow heads so that the impact can be effective. Most children are not prepared for the future, hence when the future comes; they fail in a land slide fashion. We must give to out replacements timeless lesson, virtues and character that cannot be thought in schools. We must build them into personalities that are approved so that they would not be ashamed when the future comes knocking at the door.

‘’…Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it…’’  (Pro 22:6)