Belonging

"We belong to the day..." To the light, as those who can see, so as t not be caught unawares at Jesus' return. "...let us be self-controlled..." this isn't a striving as such, it is bearing God's fruit (Gal. 5:22-23). How? "...putting on faith and love as a breastplate..." more fruit, and armor - Faith (shield from the enemy's fiery darts of temptation) and love (heart's motivation to action, God's love shed abroad in our hearts because He first loved us) - these guard our heart: the source of all our words, actions, the seat of our beliefs. "...and the hope of salvation as a helmet." (I Thessalonians ch. 5 vs.8). a reasonable hope: as well as spirit known, reasonable because the God of Creation has a complete perspective of all that' s been, is, and will be, and has made a way for us. He makes our hope reasonable.