Do You Trust me? The Armor of God Series

   "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase" (Martin Luther King Jr.).

   Do you trust me? That's the question I asked some children that I was teaching. I had only known these children for 3-4 days. The first child said, "yes I trust you." Children are very trusting, which can be good or bad depending on the situation. 

   I had this child sit down on a chair then explained my experiment to the rest of the children. I had a pack of Jellybelly Beans Boozled. In this pack of jellybeans there were beans that tasted good like juicy pear, peach, or chocolate pudding. But, there were also bad flavors that looked exactly the same as the good flavors. Some of these bad flavors tasted like booger, barf, or centipede. 

   Thus, after I asked "do you trust me?" The child would get a bean. I didn't know if it was good or bad. Therefore, the child actually couldn't trust me. This helped the children have fun while also realizing that people are going to let them down; no matter how much that person doesn't want to let them down. There is only one person who we can have faith in and know that he won't let us down: God.

   The shield was a vital tool to the Roman soldiers. It was their only defense from flaming arrows. The shield was so tall that the soldier could crouch behind it when he saw those arrows coming.

   For the Christian, we need to crouch behind our faith. We don't have arrows flying at us, but we do have other things thrown at us. We have lies, guilt, and many more things thrown at us by the devil. When these are thrown at us we must have faith. 

   Faith is the only thing that may keep us going at times. When many bad things happen at once we must cling to our faith. If we don't cling then we have a danger of losing the only thing that truly matters in life: our relationship with God. Sure, people also matter to us but, as stated in other blogs, we need to take care of our faith first before we can take care of others.

   How can we have faith? We need to dig deeper into our relationship with God. When you first accepted Christ you were on fire for God and you wanted to know more about him. Like in any relationship, that fire fades. In order to keep our faith we must dig deeper. We need to find out more about God. We need to pray and talk with God. That is what will help our shield of faith grow.

   So, will you dig deeper into your faith? Will you get to know God more as you grow? Will you continue to keep your shield of faith up?

   Hebrews 11:1, Romans 10:17, Ephesians 6:10-18