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Stand Against Treachery

By equipping yourself with God’s armor

Violet Escalera
Koinonia
6 min readSep 3, 2021

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A man standing with armor on and many people behind and beside him.
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“Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” (Ephesians 6:11, KJV).

In our walk with the Lord as true believers, we meet up with struggles and battles every day. Of course, we will never be free of this, as we saw in my previous post: Be Strong! But only in the Lord.

Since war is an integral part of being a believer, we must understand that it will never end while we live in this world as humans.

When I was a child, I would daydream about being the one to save the world. The whole idea of fighting evil interested me, and I longed to challenge those people who would hurt others.

However, fighting spiritual evil daily, hourly, minutely, even on a second-by-second basis never crossed my mind. Blinded, I thought the only thing worth fighting for was the physical life.

Spiritual war persists in each of our lives, and that’s why people want to play war games.

We live with spiritual war every day. The psyche of the human mind understands that, which might very well be why so many people want to play games of war. Instead of fighting…

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Violet Escalera
Violet Escalera

Written by Violet Escalera

I have 5 children and 2 grandchildren, a Christian, and my husband is my best friend. Take a look at my creative writing, poetry, thoughts on God, and sci-fi!

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