This... is.....SPARTA!!!

Hey everyone!
The Lord has truly blessed us with giving us the opportunity to minister to our fellow seventh-day Adventists. Today, at the Mississauga Filipno SDA church, during the group dynamics ice breaker, not only did we enjoy dressing up the roman soldiers and watching them fight, but we gained some valuable insight into what it takes to become a soldier for Christ and the proper armor we should put on. We saw how some armor held steadfast during battle while others began to fall apart just walking to the front lines.
What I found interesting was the "battle" between Eidlevies and Micah (awww so cute!). Eidlevies's armor was very ...pretty looking. She had the pleated skirt, the over-exaggerated sword, the works! Kudos to the groups creativity *thumbs up* In spite of this, we all know who CLEARLY won the mock battle. This little soldier boy, whose armor wasn't all that aesthetically pleasing, but held steadfast (maybe it was because Micah was beating her armor like a pinata, but it probably would have fallen apart either way). Every swing Micah took at Eidlevies, something fell off, but when Eidlevies swung at Micah, it was like hitting a tank.






This scene reminded me of one of Kuya Angelo's points he made during his sermon - false readiness. The armor Eidlevies had on portrayed her readiness for battle while Micah just looked like...i don't even know, he just looked like a heap of newspaper. Like Peter, we can claim that we are ready to head into the battlefield and that we are ready to take a stand and die for Christ. But when we actually cross paths with temptation or times of tribulation, how firm will our armor really stand?



To use myself as an example, before this ministry started, I was going to church because it was routine and i was putting on a front to seem as though i was a good christian. I would lead out in song service sometimes, do opening or closing prayer, go to nursing homes and sing...all that other stuff. I was exemplifying false readiness. If you had asked me why I believe in God, or why I am even a christian, I would have not been able to give a defence (1 Peter 3:15). I would have been ruined just like Eidlevies's armour. However, I realized how unready I was if I were ever to be put on the front lines of christian warfare. The only thing that would protect us from the battle against evil, temptation and Satan himself, is the armor of God. We can put this armor on by doing what is urged of us - reading our bible and pray. I don't want to sound all preachy, but from my experience, there is nothing more satisfying than spending time with the Lord in prayer. Beginning a day with prayer prepares me for a new day, and if I happen to come across temptation, I have a renewed armor which God has protected me with at the beginning of the day when i spent time with Him in prayer.
I hope and pray that all of us will be ready, bearing the armor of God when we are called to take a stand for Christ and to represent what it truly means to be a Christian.
212!!