Happy Fathers Day!

Today it's Fathers Day in Sweden and we want to celebrate the greatest dad on this planet by telling him that;

My dad is special because he is fun and plays football with me.
Michael 9 years old

My daddy is special because he loves me more than anything in the whole wide world!
Josefina 7 years old

My dad is special because he tickles and plays with me.
Lucas 2,5 years old

My dad is special because he is my dad!
Emilia 11 months old :)

We love you daddy and we MISS YOU!!! Published: By: The Almqvists - 7:15 PM

But Uriah didn't go home...

Some times you just need to do things that you do not feel like. The circumstances might not be favorable but because of a decision made at an earlier point in life you choose to act based on principle.
It is when we are at our prime that we are most vulnerable for self destruction.


Most times when we read 2 Sam 11 we have King David in mind; it is in fact about him. But today I want to look at this story from a different angle. David was at the height of his career. God had blessed him and he had won countless battles, subduing enemy after enemy. King David reckoned that he was well over due for a vacation. (Please do not get me wrong; we need vacation) He decided to stay at home at a time when kings go to battle


A good warrior lives by his principles at all times, no matter what. This is not about right or wrong but about the kind of life that we choose to live. The day we accept Jesus in our hearts we are on our way to heaven. But there is so much more that we can choose to tap into. There is an adventurous life with the Spirit of Jesus that is available for us if we choose to live by a certain code.


Warriors of all times, have always lived their lives by a certain code and have also many times through history been misunderstood by people that live by another code or none at all. Warriors live not for themselves but for something greater.


David stayed at home when he should have been at war. Uriah, one of his soldiers was at war and was summoned by the king. Uriah returned to the palace because he was summoned but he was still on the battlefield. Now let us read verse 9:


But Uriah didn’t go home. He slept that night at the palace entrance with the king’s palace guard.


When a warrior went to war he said goodbye to this wife and did not return to her until all the warriors returned home when the war was won or lost or when they were on leave. Uriah was not on leave. He was on official duty and in his mind he was still at war on the battlefield. This is why HE DID NOT GO HOME. He lived his life by principle, by a code, engraved in him by the King himself. 


King David was a warrior by all means but when life became good he chose to forfeit the code and this lead him to sin and loose the Kingdom. Let us not deviate from the code. As warriors in the Kingdom we need to live by this code at all times.


Some of you may ask: are we better than anyone else? The answer is no, just different. The code we live by makes us different. 


Warriors: It is time to step up, to be reminded of the code. We can not afford to compromise on who we are and our strengths, simple to fit in. We need to be the way we are. Circumstances will not always be favorable. But we still push on.


I arrived home late on Thursday last week from Tanzania. Something happened to my eyes on the way home. Might have been Pink Eye. Friday morning I was to lead prayer school at MCM Ministry School. Did I feel like it? No. But I did anyway because it was the right thing to do. Again, does this make me better than anyone else? No! But because of the code, I did. I am not saying this to boast in any way. This is just the most recent example I have to share.


But Uriah didn't go home...


C U soon Published: By: The Almqvists - 3:19 AM