Thursday, October 29 Take up the large shield of faith, with which you will be able to extinguish all the wicked one’s burning arrows.​—Eph. 6:16.

[Áine]

Thursday, October 29

Take up the large shield of faith, with which you will be able to extinguish all the wicked one’s burning arrows.—Eph. 6:16.

 

Some of the “burning arrows” that Satan might fire at you are lies about Jehovah—that He does not care about you and that you are unlovable. Nineteen-year-old Ida struggles with feelings of unworthiness. She says, “I have often felt that Jehovah isn’t close to me and that he doesn’t want to be my Friend.” How does she deal with this attack? “The meetings are a giant boost to my faith,” says Ida. “I used to sit there and never comment, thinking that nobody would want to hear what I had to say. Now, though, I prepare for the meetings and try to answer two or three times.” Ida’s experience highlights an important truth: The literal shield given to a soldier had fixed dimensions, but the size of our shield of faith can either shrink or grow. It is up to us. (Matt. 14:31;2 Thess. 1:3) How important it is that we build up our faith! w18.05 29-30 ¶12-14

[Let your light shine]

What a great text.  It highlights the point that it requires action on our part, as in we need to "Take up the large shield of faith".

[georider]

In reading the text today, I read something I had not thought about! It is interesting that I knew faith was our shield, our protection! I also knew that the soldier's shield covered from his shoulders to his knees! Somehow, I never thought about our shield shrinking or growing based on our faith! That's a profound thought! So each of us want to be determined to continue to work on and build our faith so it will be stronger and stronger making our shield larger and larger!