Powerful Weapon

DEVOTION
EPHESIANS
POWERFUL WEAPON
Eph 6:16
16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
NIV
In addition, ok I have got a lot already but here is something which really does a great job of not only protecting me from the schemes of the devil, but also actually puts out his attacks. This shield of faith extinguishes all, not some, not just a few, but all the flaming arrows of the evil one. The thing is I have to carry this shield around with me all the time; I can’t leave it behind, or simply drag it behind me. I have to have it in position guarding my inner being at every moment of every day. Satan never stops, never rests in his assault on my being, my soul. He is determined to destroy me. If I let my guard down, if I step out from behind my shield, splat an arrow, a flaming arrow hits it mark. God has made this shield of faith for me so I do not have to go up in flames. But I also know if I stand out in the battlefield all alone, the devil might be able to outflank me. I would have to be continually spinning around in order to stand my ground. I would be always anxious about which direction is he shooting from now. But, I think I am supposed to rely on some of my fellow believers with their shields of faith to stand side by side with me and me with them to form a wall of defense, a circle of defense so together we can move forward in our march on evil, and in our defense from his attacks. Now I know this is not about playing church. I know there is more than that, in fact church seems so shallow and hollow most of the time. I feel most of my fellow believers aren’t really standing at my side with their shields nor for that matter am I for them. No, I think God intended a deeper relationship to exist between believers. If I am going to trust my flank to another, or they to me, something far more then church has to exist between us. How? I am perplexed about this. Yet until I am able to solve this with the help of the Holy Spirit, I must, I will stand my ground, I will acknowledge the truth about myself, I will wear his breastplate, I will not be a man of bias, I will march on with my feet protected and I will hold his shield high guarding myself from those attacks. Faith is a powerful weapon.