What will it look like?

 

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When I get my 63 split window corvette you can bet on one thing for sure. Its not going to be a car that sits in my garage for looks… taken out ever so rarely on a late Sunday afternoon for coffee with the wife… OH NO NOT ME, I will be driving that car a lot and usually above the speed limit. 

 

 

If you have ever gone to a museum to see artifacts one of the most unique things is when you see a piece that belonged to someone regardless of what it is. Maybe you see a helmet from Harold “Red” Grange in the NFL Pro football hall of fame. It will be dried up, beat up scuffed up and probably still smell like sweat and blood. Grange was a hammering rod of a running back. I bet Red could tell stories about that helmet that would put smiles on any man woman or child. 

Or maybe you go to the Rock n roll hall of fame and see a guitar from none other than Chuck Berry… its worn out, buckle scratches, sun dried, cracked head, chipped tuning pegs. But the stories Chuck could tell swinging that Axe around the country and world. It would be amazing.

Or if you went to the Nascar hall of fame and saw a car that Dale Earnhardt senior drove. The paint swaps, the chips, the steering wheel… the headset sitting on the seat… Talk about some wear and tear and sheer adrenaline in that thing. Again the stories that Dale Could tell just sitting there leaning up against it. 

 

so when you retire what are yours going to look like. You know right? What’s it going to look like? Will you be able to hold them up and tell any stories… What exactly am I talking about? Well lets read Eph. 6:10-17

10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

 

No kid wants to be the one who at the end of the game has a pristine clean spotless uniform. You get what I mean…  no dirt, no sweat, no blood, no paint from other players helmets… it means you did not play. 

So what will your armor look like in heaven? 

I fear for many of us it will look like we did not fight.

 

Belt - of truth - notches for salvations

Helmet - Salvation - dings and dents from defending Satans lies

Sword - Spirit still razor sharp, bloody, grip terribly worn from all the warfare prayer

Shield - Faith, shield, has burnt marks from all the fiery arrows, blocking cancer reports, bankruptcy, gossip, lies

Breastplate - Righteousness that has an axe still stuck in it, but never pierced through to the other side. When Satan threw that major sin at you… your breastplate of righteousness took the blow

Shoes - Peace, shoes worn down, retied, dirty, sweaty, foot prints still worn into the souls… shoes that carried peace to your boss, neighbors, kids, friends, strangers… 

 

I want my armor worn, I want it to look like it was not just second hand hand me down, but third, fourth and fifth hand me down. I want it to wreak of hell and smoke, I want it to have ashes from hell in the creases of the leather. I want anyone to look at it and say… I don’t know who wore this armor… but they my friend were a warrior. They were a truly sold out, bad to the bone fighter.