Armor of God

Armor of God

On a recent trip to the Blue Ridge Parkway, we stopped in an old stone church in Lexington, Virginia.  The R.E. Lee Memorial Episcopal Church was begun in 1840.  It's on the edge of the beautiful Washington & Lee campus.  I'm a sucker for stain glass (my husband frequently asks, "And why are you taking another picture of stain glass?"), and this church has some unique windows.  Let me share them with you -

I love the passage in Ephesians 6 about the Armor of God and this stain glass perfectly represents one of the items that is imperative to our desire to "be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might."  I like this picture of the "helmet of salvation" listed in verse 17.  This helmet has a nice plume of feathers along the top and a bold golden Maltese cross on the front.  Certainly Salvation is the number one piece needed to make us strong in the Lord.

Next, we have the "sword of the Spirit," which is the Word of God, and also listed in verse 17.  The next verse continues the Spirit theme, adding "praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints."  And speaking of the Spirit, the glass below is meant to represent that gentle, holy person -

The pure, white dove that settled upon Jesus was our first glimpse of a representation of the Holy Spirit - "And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came

from heaven which said, 'You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased" Luke 3:22.