Yesterday we looked at the armour of God. In Psalm 28:7 David writes, “The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped.” David says that God is not only his protector in battle but that God himself gave him the strength to carry our shield. There is more to this scripture than just physical protection.
David says “My heart trusted in him”. We need to use the shield of God to not only move forward and engage in spiritual battle, but we need to use the shield to guard our hearts in our relationships.
We need to use God's word as a shield to protect us as we engage in all our relationships, work, friends and romantic. When we guard our hearts and build strong boundaries, we can grow in trust with those around us and still protect our souls.
Strangely most of us struggle to “let our guard down” in relationships, not realizing that we should be doing is in fact keeping our guard up. That is until that person has earned our trust and shown themselves to be faithful to us. If your heart has been wounded to a dagger to the heart, ask God for healing and then ask him to help you keep that shield up until he let's you know that it is safe to go further.
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