Me: Look at all those helmets!

Prodigal: Yes, they really wanted protection.

Me: Well I can discuss with you another type of helmet that is mentioned in the bible.

Prodigal: Let’s hear.

This is from the book Overcoming Spiritual Blindness by James P. Gills, M.D.

Paul tells us that the helmet of salvation represents hope (1 Thess. 5:8). Hope is the sure confidence and expectation promised to the believer in God’s Word. It is worked in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. Many believers’ heads have sustained, and survived, heavy blows because they knew that God the Father Almighty works for good in their lives. Hope, as armor, gives us the assurance that the Son of God will not fail to shepherd us through our trials. God will prevail for us, and through us, not in our own strength but that which He supplies.

The helmet of hope protects our heads from mortal wounds, and it also allows us to advance with our hands and free. Rather than covering our heads with our hands in fear, we can proceed with our heads up, hands ready–courageous and confident. Our King and Captain urges us on as He speaks to us through the Word: “For I, the LORD your God, will hold your right hand, Saying to you, “Fear not, I will help you” (Isa. 41:13). “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that we may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit” ( Rom 15:13).

Mark 2:45

But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter.

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org