Constant Armor

Eph 6:11  Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Because this armor is unseen, because it is spiritual armor it's easy to ignore it altogether and simply go about day to day life not giving it much thought. 

Truthfully, we should don this armor and never remove it, right?  We are aware of our physicality and must pray to become fully aware of our spirituality.  The spiritual truly being much more vital to us than our physical selves in matters of eternity.  In eternity we will not possess anything we possess today- aside from the part of us that makes us who we are spiritually. We all know that physically we never stay the same, rarely from one day to the next. Changes are constantly taking place in us, constantly, unendingly.  In fact when our Savior returns for us- we will be CHANGED physically CHANGED. Even our sleeping dead will be raised up from their graves and CHANGED physically.

1Co 15:52  In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

1Co 15:53  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

1Co 15:54  So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

Death will NOT be swallowed up in victory until our SAVIOR returns and we are changed, none are changed before our SAVIOR returns for us- or why would we be told the dead shall be raised and changed? If our beloved dead are already raised and changed they would have NO need to be raised and changed when our Savior returns, this is logical.

Going back to our spiritual self and the recognition of that self, we cannot afford to neglect that most important part of ourselves.

We are told to put on spiritual armor.  And truly I believe it is armor we are not supposed to take off. We are supposed to don this armor and live in this armor all the time, protected always by the armor.  Yet we cannot don this armor and forget it exists upon us because when we forget it exists upon us the danger that it is no longer with us is very real. We have to realize it just as we realize the clothes upon our bodies, just as we realize the parts of us that are with us always.  There is thought of them, thoughts of ourselves, our physical being.

This spiritual armor must be noted and in noting it just as we note a shirt, or pants, skirts, or shorts, socks, shoes and anything else we may put on ourselves, we must recognize the armor for what it is- the helmet, the breastplate, the shield, the boots, the skirt, the sword-  these are the pieces of armor and we are told what each one represents spiritually.

The helmet is salvation.  The breastplate is righteousness. The skirt is truth. The boots are the gospel of peace.  The shield is faith. The sword is the Spirit of the Word of God.

Thoughts of our salvation must be constant, they were constant with our Savior. Thoughts of Christ's righteousness but be continual thoughts.  The truth must ever be with us in all we do. The peace that is given to us by our Savior must be something we never forget.  Always we have to have faith, always believing never doubting.  And yes, the word of God should be ever with us!  This is our armor, these are our spiritual clothes, our protective coverings.  We dare NOT live without these spiritual items or we live unprotected and open to powerful spiritual assaults able to knock us away from our God. 

Yes, we are going to be spiritually assaulted all the time, but when we are protected we spiritually survive the attacks, we don't succumb to them.

We have to remember spiritual attacks can be something as unassuming as getting us to slip away from established truth substituting truths of our own devising because as soon as we do that we are no longer with Christ being known by Him.

We must think of these things because if we don't we allow ourselves to get caught up on the world and we will never know eternity with Christ.

Spiritual attacks are real and maybe not always or often blatant but rather subtle and on a day to day level meant to wear us down. Tiny attacks over a long period of time can lead to just as much destruction as one successful huge attack. The destruction here being the outcome of our losing eternity.  Satan will use every strategy he possibly can to keep us from eternity in the Love of our God, a God he denied, a God he helped crucify.

If we think Satan will stop shy of torturing us spiritually to keep us away from Christ then we are deluding ourselves. We need to fall at the feet of Jesus constantly surrendering to Him, letting Him be our everything because we truly are empty without Him.

Let us live with Christ's salvation, righteousness, truth, peace, faith, Word of God as a constant in our lives, as constant as our waking up each morning and donning our day clothes, and as constant as getting ready for bed and putting on our pajamas, let us put on the whole armor of God.

All by HIS GRACE and MERCY, all through HIS amazing LOVE, always!