Saturday, March 16 Put on . . . the hope of salvation as a helmet.​—1 Thess. 5:8.

[Áine]

Saturday, March 16

Put on . . . the hope of salvation as a helmet.—1 Thess. 5:8.

 

A soldier wears a helmet to protect his head. In our spiritual warfare, we need to protect our mind from Satan’s attacks. He bombards us with temptations and ideas designed to corrupt our thinking. Just as the helmet protects a soldier’s head, our hope protects our thinking so that we can remain faithful to Jehovah. If our hope weakens and we allow fleshly thinking to take hold of our mind, we can lose sight of the goal of everlasting life. Consider the case of some Christians living in ancient Corinth. They lost faith in a key promise of God—the hope of the resurrection. (1 Cor. 15:12) Paul argued that people with no hope of a future life live only for the present. (1 Cor. 15:32) Today many who have no hope in God’s promises live for the moment, grasping whatever pleasures are available to them. We, however, put our trust in the future promised by God. w22.10 25-26 ¶8-9

[Wayne]

[Daily Text - Sat, Mar 16 "Put on...the hope of salvation as a helmet.—."]  A soldier’s helmet protects his head. Our “hope of salvation”—our confidence in the fulfillment of God’s promises about his glorious new world—will protect our minds from Satan’s lies. (1 Thess. 5:8) We need to keep that hope bright and strong by diligent personal study of the Scriptures.