This passage shows us that we are not an ill-equipped people. We are not a people with empty rifles or empty hands. We are a people who have been given a significant weapon to use against the evil one. This is no run-of-the-mill stage prop. It is a device so incredible and
effective as God himself, through history, has forged it for us. A tool so effective, when picked up and used, it both dismembers the enemy and builds up its holder. We have been given the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God. Today we must remember that we are well equipped, and when temptation presses in we must
take the Word of God and strike hard.