Helmet of Salvation
Jo Penn
June 30, 2023
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Ephesians 6:17 (NRSVA)
17 Take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
I own a snazzy purple cycle helmet which I used to wear when cycling at weekends. However streamlined and colourful the design was (much better than my previous yellow Belisha beacon like helmet) it was still quite cumbersome to wear, but a necessary protection to my head against injury from falls.
The apostle Paul asks us to ‘take’ the helmet of salvation — to put it on. Like the cycle helmet, the helmet of salvation is there to protect our mind from injury which would prevent it working in its ‘renewed’ state meditating on the things of God.
Our helmet of salvation is pure gift, we could never have saved ourselves out from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God’s light:
‘For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.’ (Ephesians 2: 8-9)
I decided to become a follower of Jesus, and accept his saving love, as a young person on a Sunday School Camp. That all seems a long time ago now, but I have had a number of occasions since when I have been asked to declare my following of Jesus — at my baptism, my confirmation and taking the community promises here at Scargill House.
There was a particularly powerful time a few years back when I was prayed for by others – that all the things I had done wrong in my life be taken onto the body of Jesus on the cross; as well as Jesus bearing all the wrong things that had been done to me by others. I no longer had to carry any of these damaging things and the wounds that they had caused could be healed. This was a really helpful prayer time that I could see did set me free in a profound way.
PRAYER:
Jesus,
Thank you for saving me out of spiritual darkness into the light of the Kingdom of God.
Show me how to live today to honour you by all I say and all I do.
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