Black Hawk Down

Was thinking about the Battle of Mogadishu this morning. Most of us know this battle from the movie Black Hawk Down. After the 2nd black hawk crashed, Master Sergeant Gary Gordon and Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart requested to be dropped at the site of the 2nd crash to try and secure it. Understand that the whole city of Mogadishu was hostile to the US and thousands of the city's residents were headed towards the crashed helicopter. Their requests were denied multiple times, but they persisted until they were allowed to be dropped off at the crash site. They understood that there was no guarantee of when or even if back up would show up. They understood that their were American pilots on the ground in harm's way and they said, 'I'll go'. We need Christians, soldiers in the Army of God that will say, "send me, I'll go. I'll stand in the gap, I'll build a hedge." It seems a shame to me that soldiers fighting for a temporal country have more gusto than those of fighting for an eternal kingdom. God give us some soldiers that will say, 'send me, I'll stand in the gap'.