That is the thought in the apostle's mind when he tells us to take the shield of faith (Eph 6:16).
A shield is not a weapon of offense.
It is different from sword or spear. A shield is a protective bit of armour.
It guards the soldier amid blows and buffetings.
And Paul means that if we are to be guarded amid the blows and buffetings of life, there must be radiant faith within the heart.
If our darker hours have no meaning in them, if they be quite devoid of plan or purpose, if there be nothing in life but accident or chance, the most man can achieve is resignation.
But if God be love, and if everything that comes to us arrives in the perfect ordering of the Father, then another attitude becomes possible.
He who believes that God is in the difficult circumstance is empowered to endure it.
He can say with Christ, "Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Thy sight."
Faith is the victory that overcomes the world.
Faith finds the soul of goodness in things evil.
Faith is one great secret of endurance.
~George Morrison~
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