"Hold the Line!"

Last month, I spent part of a Saturday walking the Gettysburg battlefield with my family. At the base of Little Round Top (so named to distinguish it from the larger hill next to it which is appropriately named Big Round Top) is a description of the intense fighting that occurred on Little Round Top on the second day of the battle. Little Round Top was the extreme right of the Union line. Colonel Joshua Chamberlain, commander of the 20th Maine was ordered to "hold the ground at all hazards!" If the enemy were to get around Chamberlain and his men, they could go on to roll up the entire Union flank. So Chamberlain and his men from Maine were determined to hold their ground, and they did just that. They repulsed numerous attacks. When Chamberlain realized his men were without ammunition, he ordered a bayonet charge. Rushing down the hill into the enemy ranks, they caught the Confederates by surprise and captured a huge number of them. For his courage in the heat of battle, Chamberlain was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Chamberlain did what he was called upon to do. He held the line! We as Christians are called upon by God to also "hold the line!" In 1 Corinthians 15:58 Paul writes the following: "Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain."  So my friends, let's determine to allow nothing to move us from the solid ground upon which we stand - the solid ground of the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

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pj