Helmet

Ephesians 6:17  Put on salvation as your helmet, and take the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God. 

If our helmet is salvation, we should be thinking as saved people.  That opens so many avenues on thought.  How do saved people think?  How should we think?  What do we think about?  What should we be thinking about?   To me this is like a word picture...In seeing salvation as my helmet it really illuminates the whole "renewing your mind" instruction from Romans 12:2.  "Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect."  It brings it to life for me. 

We need only to look into God's Word to discover the answers to how and what we should be thinking.  Knowing things like how much God loves us, who we are in Christ, how we are to relate to God and to those around us, how we are to respond to trials and hardships, all of this relies on our thinking and our thinking needs to be shaped by the Bible.  When we do that, we are thinking as a saved person, wearing our helmet of salvation.  I know sometimes these concepts seem elementary, like, "oh, no kidding...we need to think right,"  but it really goes so much deeper, and seems so much more alive when God gives you a picture.  And sometimes we need to be reminded in a new way that brings these "old" concepts to life.  I know I do. 

Psalm 77:12  They are constantly in my thoughts. I cannot stop thinking about your mighty works.

Psalm 119:97  Oh, how I love your instructions! I think about them all day long.

Psalm 119:148  I stay awake through the night, thinking about your promise.

Philippians 4:8  And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.

Romans 8:5  Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit.

I love when I hear just one little phrase and it awakens my whole mind.  It's like an explosion of light going off in my head.  Wow.  What a God visit!    Helmet, thinking, salvation....love it!!!   We have to be wearing our helmets! 

Lord, help us to think like the saved people we are.  We are a new creation, the old thought patterns and lost thinking need to go!  Give new life to our minds.  Fill our thoughts with Your Word, Your light and make us new!  Lord, I'm sorry for the negativity, the foul thoughts I let stay in my mind, the things I dwell on that are harmful and cause me to not live the life, be the witness, share the love that You would have me do.  I pray that each of us will remember our helmet and think as You think.  In Jesus Name, amen.

Remember your helmet today.  You are saved!!