The Armor of God 

   “Therefore, put on the armor of God, that you may be able to resist on the evil day and, having done everything, to hold your ground.” (Eph 6: 13) 

   Anyone who does not believe we are at war with evil hasn’t been paying attention to the world around them.  Living with our head in the sand, ignoring all that is happening will not defeat the evil, but will even encourage it.

   The war cannot be won by our own strength and to think that we can overcome Satan on our own is a denial of fact that can only lead to frustration and even more evil in the world.  We need the armor of God if we are to fight this battle.

   But what is the armor of God.  St. Paul gives tells us in his letter to the Ephesians, “So stand fast with your loins girded in truth, clothed with the righteousness as a breastplate, and your feet shod in readiness for the gospel of peace.  In all circumstances, hold faith as a shield, to quench all the flaming arrows of the evil one.  And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. (Eph 6: 14 – 17).  These then are the armor of God in which we must fight the evil one and his followers.

   This world will never know true peace, will never eliminate evil, until the day our Lord Jesus Christ comes again in glory.  Until then, let us put on the armor of God and fight the good fight.