Deployment is hard for the one going and the ones left behind. These verses speak to both.
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“For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.”
Psalm 91:11 (KJV)
“Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.”
Deuteronomy 31:6 (KJV)“Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.”
Isaiah 41:10 (KJV)Psalm 91 was called the soldier's psalm across many centuries of warfare because it speaks directly into danger — not the sanitized version of life, but real threat, real fear, real vulnerability. God's charge to the angels isn't a lucky charm; it's a statement about whose care the deployed soldier is ultimately under. And Deuteronomy 31:6 speaks equally to the one going and the one standing at home watching them go.