EQUIPPED

When you by an automobile you like the sticker to say ; "Equipped".  In other words,  it will have more than enough gadgets and voices to meet whatever traveling can throw at you.  We think it insane for a car not to be equipped with safety features. There was a day, no one would have used seat belts if they had them.  It required Educating the public of the obvious positives and fatal consequences for not having or using them as well.

We are in an uproar and rightly so, when soldiers are sent into combat with inadequate weapons or protection  It would be ludicrous for a combat soldier not to be equipped with the correct attitude, knowledge, leadership, machinery and firepower!

The follower of Christ is to be equipped and given every opportunity for spiritual maturity and strength under the leadership and authority of God.  Through Biblical instruction, prayer and relationship with God the disciple develops into someone who is not paralyzed by fear but mobilized in His peace.  I should not just carelessly or unknowingly bounce off of one circumstance and temptation to another.  When you and I are equipped we can enter into eternity loving God and loving others.

"And Jesus came and spoke to them saying, "All Authority has been given me in Heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo I am with you always, even to the end o the age."  Matthew 28:16-20.

Read Ephesians Chapter 4, which includes: "And He gave apostles, some prophets, some evangelist, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the body of Christ....."

Remember Exalt, Equip, and next writing; is to Engage.

What did the testifying Christian say?  "I'm to Equipped to be whipped!"