Band of Brothers

This is an amazing war documentary, in fact, I think it's possibly the best I've seen. I really should get hold of it watch it again. There is one scene where one of the men from Easy company quotes a part of William Shakespeare's Henry V. It is a scene that I always remember, one that seems so poignant and significant that it has to be true to our everyday life.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whilst any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

--William Shakespeare

Don't you love that? I love the statement that the gentlemen now a-bed will call themselves accursed that they were not there, not part of the action. I almost feel like that's what a lot of Christians will be doing one day. They'll call themselves accursed that they did not get into the fray, get into the action. The battle is raging all around them, yet they are comfortably a-bed and not taking any interest or any part of it. The General is calling His troops to arms. He has taken a stand, His robe dipped in blood (Rev 19:13), and he is leading the way into the battle. He is calling us to stand, to take a firm grip with our tired hands and mark out a straight path for our feet so that those who follow, though they are tired and lame will not stumble, but will become strong. (Heb 12:12-13)

He told them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. (Luke 10:2-3)

We Few, we happy few, we Band of Brothers.