As I write

this article, our gallant troops are closing in on Baghdad. By the time

you read this it will, hopefully, be over.

I thought of

several other things to write about, but this subject is forever jumping

in and out of my consciousness. It is interesting to me how bare truth

can be shown on international television and people will still fail to

believe it. It is further beyond my comprehension to see how supposedly

educated thinking Americans would be foolish enough to want to believe

the enemies of this country over their own president.

It does, however,

show how easily people can willfully be led astray. I am reminded of the

stories in God's Word of how Jesus healed the blind, made the lame walk,

turned water into wine and raised the dead. These were firsthand accounts

still don't believe today.

There are those

today who spend their lifetime attempting to say what God's Word "doesn't

say." They never attempt to say what it does say. I periodically

read in the media that there are groups that will say and print that the

Holocaust never existed. In fact, I had a conversation with a man who

espoused this point of view. I politely told him that the Holocaust did

exist because my father was with some of the first troops that liberated

Buchenwald Concentration Camp in World War II.

This confused

individual said to me, "I'm sure your father quoted what he thought

he saw." He who has ears, let him hear! He who has eyes, let him

see!

I was on the

Grenada operation "Urgent Fury" in October 1983. I was serving

with the 82nd Airborne Division and we overran seven large warehouses

completely full of Russian weapons, ammunition, combat field equipment,

uniforms and food stuffs. There was enough there to supply a small army.

I then remember the media accusing us of bringing all that equipment in

to "justify us going into the island." It was hard enough to

get our own supplies in, much less shipping this stuff in to photograph

it.

We must always

remember in life that "we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but

against spiritual wickedness in high places." By the way, that is

out of the Bible. We must always remember that the "deceiver"

is ever at work constantly to keep us from the truth.

Again, I believe

it was brilliant to have reporters accompany the troops for firsthand

information. In my most humble opinion, this is the first time since Viet

Nam that these men and women have been reporting a true prospective of

the battle field and not having it filtered through their former liberal

handlers.

Speaking of

"truth," our coalition forces are running over place after place

in Iraq where torture and death chambers have been used to prop up Saddam's

godless regime. I believe when the fighting stops and the people of Iraq

feel free to speak the truth, you will hear story after story of misery,

death and torture that will compare to Stalin, Hitler and Mao.

God's Word

says, "You will know the truth and the truth will set you free ."

Pray every day for our president, our leaders, and the servicemen and

women who are making it all happen. We are told in God's Word to also

pray for our enemies a tough thing to do in time of war. My prayer in

this area is that they would understand the saving and loving grace of

our Lord Jesus Christ and no longer be our enemy. If this does not happen,

I pray that they will lay down their arms so that there will be no more

war. If this does not happen, I pray that our forces finish the war in

victory with the fewest causalities on both sides.

Long live a

free Iraq. "God Bless America, land that I love, stand beside her

and guide her with a light that is bright from above."

The Rev.

Dr. Knox Herndon is pastor of His House Community Church (SBC). The Rev.

Greg Mausz is senior associate pastor. The Rev. Dr. Lydia Herndon is the

Sunday School superintendent, Bible study coordinator and teacher. The

church is just below Fayetteville, on Ga. Highway 85, a mile south of

Ga. Highway 16, just below the fire station. Visitors welcome. Church

office and prayer line 770-719-2365; e-mail [email protected]. The church's

new Web site is www.hishousecommunitychurch.com.

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