Less than 12 Hours Until Departure

For the past several days, I have been running around like a chicken with it's head cut off. I am taking two summer courses (one of which is elementary statistics...yuck) while working a part time job, teaching a 5th grade girls connect group class, and fitting in trips to camp and to Haiti...Needless to say, I am at this very moment quite frazzled. It's almost midnight and I have to be up by 6 to make it to the airport in time. So why, you ask, am I blogging? Well....


As I sit here packing my final bag, I keep running through a list I made weeks ago of items that I simply can't forget to take with me. Items such as certain medications (malaria medication of course!), a battery powered fan, my Bible, a flashlight, instant coffee. Items you simply can't get in Haiti. Though these have all made it successfully into my checked bag, there is one thing that I keep forgetting...

This item isn't necessarily something I need to pack, but it is something that I definitely need to take with me to Haiti. It's a simple thing called the armor of God. I find it really funny that for some reason, my mind races and races about the things that I would simply "die without" if they didn't make it with me to Jeremie, yet I have once again forgotten to put on all my spiritual armor before I venture out into the "real world".


Paul writes in Ephesians chapter 6, "Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to this , take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep praying for all the Lord's people..."


I have my belt of truth buckled. The truth the the Lord loves His people and above all else wants them to love Him too. My breastplate of righteousness is ready to go. I know who I am in Christ. I know that I am perfectly blameless in His sight and that I can go to Him with any of my problems. My feet are ready and go in peace. They walk in the direction the Father is leading me. My shield of faith lays in my left hand, while my right hand holds the word of God. I am ready to protect and defend, not just myself, but others around me as well from the flaming arrows of the evil one. I am adorned with my helmet and I am ready to defend my faith. 


Are you? 




Don't forget your armor,
Lisa