Stand fast in the faith is the next challenge. When Paul described the armour of of faith he ended by saying ‘and having done all, to stand.’ Jeremiah writes about how God will set us up to stand as iron pillars.
There are times in battle when an army is not able to advance. Sometimes you have to entrench, prepare your defences, stand, and hold the line.
It is tough to even stand in a world like ours. The world, our old flesh, and the devil all are in a fight to knock us over or move us from where we stand. The old children’s sone says ‘I stand alone on the word of God’ but the word of God as well is under constant assault.
We, of course, need God’s help even to stand. When Paul uses this phrase in the context of the armour of God he starts with ‘stand therefore…’ and ends with ‘…having done all, to stand.’
Standing in based on being prepared with the ‘whole armour of God.’ We stand because we are dressed in the gospel of peace and salvation and faith and prayer and truth and righteosness and all the rest of that armour. God provides it, but we are told that it is something we must put it on. We can’t just lay back and think that God is going to dress us in the armour. We have to take it onboard and choose to attire ourselves in that armour.
That’s where the power to stand comes from. Are we willing to do that. This might be a good time to have a look at Ephesians 6 for a review of the armour that allows us to stand.
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