The Armour of God

We must never lay aside the heavenly armour ! And this is a mercy , that if we have one piece , we have all . God does not send us to battle half armed . He who has provided one , has provided all . Let this too be remembered , and laid to heart , by way of encouragement  -  that the Lord , in choosing recruits , does not , as our army sergeants , choose the strong , stout , lusty , vigourous , and healthy . He admits strange characters into his regiment ; those whom no army doctor could pass ; the halt and the lame , the blind , the crippled , and asthmatic , and wheezing , and the paralysed ; the consumptive in lung , the diseased in heart , and the withered in limb ; he enlists them in his heavenly regiment , makes them all whole by a touch of his finger , clothes them with his heavenly armour , sends them forth to battle , and fights for them as" the God of armies" . Thus , weak in themselves , they are strong in Christ , and in the power of his might . And every such soldier will eventually win the day , gain the prize , and come off more than conqueror through him who loved and gave himself for him .