Why Warriors? Because since the Garden of Eden we have three enemies seeking to usurp God's rule over his creation: the world (the temptations around us), the flesh (are own evil desires), and the devil (yes, the Bible says he's real and deadly).   Thus, we have an enemy within and enemies without, all waging constant battle against us.

To fight these enemies, we need strength, the kind that comes from God alone! Time and again in scripture, God calls his men to be strong. Gideon and others who serve God at a time when everyone was doing what seems right in their own eyes, David and his armies that follow him, and Christian men in New Testament times are charged with standing strong. Men of valor need great strength.

So does this mean that we need to join a gym, buy a weight set, or get into bodybuilding? No, God has a different strength in mind. When faced with the defeat and the loss of his family and friends David found strength in the Lord his God 1 Samuel 30:6. Paul urged the Ephesians to be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power Ephesians 6:10.

You see, God is not necessarily calling men to lift weights but Broken Spirits before Him, not so much to build bulging biceps but to love and build up one another in Christ. Our concern should be less with winning strongman competitions then it is with winning others to the kingdom of God.