"Take the helmet of salvation..."
Ephesians 6:17a
Still speaking literally, what does a helmet do again? It covers the head... or wraps it, if you will. But can you wrap your mind around the idea of salvation? Can you fully and completely grasp what it means to be freed from yourself?
The only advice I can offer you in this regard is that in order to have any hope of understanding what it truly means to have salvation, in so complete a sense as only the Lord can offer it, you must willingly let go of your human ability to understand in an earthly sense.
You see, as I once stated in a discipleship class while reading an intense work by AW Tozer, "Knowledge of the Holy," finite minds will always attempt but never attain understanding of infinite concepts. We simply cannot handle it. We are not able to grasp it. And we can never, ever hope to actually, fully and completely understand it. But the beauty if it all is that we don't have to!
You see, our minds can't wrap around the concept... and that is why the concept surrounds US as a helmet! It is there for us, whether we can "get it" or not. So accept it, with or without a full understanding (kind of sounds like faith, don't you think?), and honor the Lord as you move forward in confidence of the salvation that guards you!
God bless you all!!!
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