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Lt. General William K. Harrison helped lead the famed 30th Infantry Division in World War II, a unit that Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower considered to be one of the best fighting forces in the entire conflict. During his service in the European Theater, Gen. Harrison received multiple medals including the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and even the Purple Heart (being one of the few generals wounded in combat).
Though he was a man of action in a dangerous profession with life and death hanging in the balance, Gen. Harrison was also a man of God’s Word. When he was a 20-year-old cadet at West Point, he began reading through the Old Testament once each year and the New Testament four times each year.
Even the chaos of war couldn’t interrupt his commitment to reading The Bible. The military leader maintained his spiritual discipline by using every respite from battle to pour through God’s Word. The decorated soldier did this until the end of his rather long life. At the age of 90, his eyesight finally diminished to the point that he was no longer able to continue the discipline of daily Scripture reading. But by that time, he’d read the Old Testament 70 times and the New Testament 280 times!
He knew God’s Word because of his godly habit.
What’s keeping you from doing the same?
Resource’s Origin:
1 – 2 Timothy and Titus by Bryan Chapell. Crossway Publishers, 2012, pages 116-117.
