Armor of God

"Stand your ground, putting on the belt of truth and the body armor of God’s righteousness. ¹⁵ For shoes, put on the peace that comes from the Good News so that you will be fully prepared. ¹⁶ In addition to all of these, hold up the shield of faith to stop the fiery arrows of the devil. ¹⁷ Put on salvation as your helmet, and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God."- Ephesians 6: 14-17
Ephesians 6 is where the Bible lists the armor of God. When I was in Sunday School we used to have a little song to go with the scripture verse and I remember by children's pastor having actual armor to represent the spiritual armor of God.
These verses to me are so beautiful. They express how we can cloth ourselves, spiritually, against the devil. These are God's weapons. The belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of peace, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and sword of the Spirit. Personally, the last one is my favorite.

My little sister has a game called 'the armor of God.' To win the game you have to collect the whole armor of God and make it the center with all of the cards, which represent the different pieces. I loved this game because it was a way to instill in a child that to succeed in life you have to obtain all the pieces of armor. You can't just not have the shoes of peace. Without peace in your life you would totally stressed out! And you can't not have the helmet of salvation. With out salvation your not going to go to heaven.

All six pieces of the armor are essential to life. Today I am just going to focus on the belt of Truth.

Truthfulness is very hard to live up to. Telling the truth isn't exactly easy. Like for instance, if your mom asks you 'did you brush your teeth?' Well, when your a child it is easy to say yeah mom I did! Even though you didn't. And as an adult it's easy to say 'did you break this dish?' no I didn't, when in all reality you did.
Lieing is quite simple to do, but not easy to stop. Did you know that it takes ten days to form a habit and only five to break one? So if lieing is part of your everyday life, try to break it, because it is only a bad habit.
You may think that lieing once in a while is okay. A little white lie here, another over there. But those little lies turn into bigger things, and before you know it you have a lie so big that you don't even know what the truth is anymore.
John 8: 32 says "And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." NLT
When you tell the truth it may seem hard at first, you may get a consequence. But in the end it if just going to set you free. And not matter how many times you lie, or who you lie to, God knows. He sees everything that we do, we cannot lie to him. And eventually, those people that you lied to will find out. Lets just hope that it's from you and not someone else.
So clothe yourself with the belt of truth!

Today I want to challenge you to tell the truth. The next time that you feel tempted to lie, or an opportunity presents itself, tell the truth instead. Make it a habit.