How many times have you been "run over" by the enemy? For most of us, we are able to go through our daily routine and living our lives, growing in faith, fairly unheeded. But then there are those days when literally all hell breaks loose, every tactic of the enemy has been deployed, everything that can go wrong has gone wrong. Believe it or not, for both types of days we need some thing Paul outlines in Ephesians we need killer shoes.
"and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;" Ephesians 6:15
I have recently preached about the armor of God but for today's "thought" I need to add a bit to it. Having your feet "shod" in the Greek means more than simply putting shoes on, it implies tieing the shoes on tightly. We must bind peace onto our lives very tightly so as never to lose it. It should be bound so tightly to us that it is part of us.
The shoes Paul is talking about where not just simply sandals they were "killer shoes" they were made of thick leather with spikes that came out the bottom. The spikes had a two-fold purpose. The first was to cause the soldier to hold his ground against the enemy when the enemy pushes back a soldier is to never lose ground but keep moving forward. The peace we walk in causes that to happen. Secondly, the shoes were an offensive weapon for with them, one quick kick in the right place the enemy was either disabled or killed. If disabled, the soldier merely had to trample his enemy under his feet and he would be destroyed. Ironic isn't it, that peace could be a weapon.
Paul is saying that when you have peace, chose to bind it to you, all the tactics of the enemy can be easily trampled under your feet and you can keep moving forward! Choose peace today and see what happens!
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This is a daily choice I have to make just to get through the day, however, everyday isn't always such an easy task BUT I must push forward taking the good with the bad knowing AND believing God has a plan and He will get me through. This peace is a peace that passes all understanding because honestly I in my flesh could have no peace! God cares for us and He does give us what we need in His Word to get us through we just have to apply it to our own lives.
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