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What Does Shield Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses
After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
What does shield mean in the Bible?
Shield: the protection the mind imagines it must construct, revealed as the presence of love that makes all defense unnecessary.
Christian Psychology lens · Genesis 15:1
Where shield appears in the Bible
Ephesians 6:16
above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.
1 Chronicles 12:8
Some Gadites joined David in the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, who could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains:
1 Kings 10:17
he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went to one shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
Shield through 2 lenses
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Christian Psychology · Genesis 15:1
Christian Psychology
The answer to fear is the ending of the need for defense. When love speaks to the anxious mind, it does not arm the mind against the world; it becomes the safety the mind was straining to build. "Fear not" is possible because the protection and the prize are one presence, already given.
The mind that has been guarding itself is told it need guard no longer. What it hoped to win by striving turns out to be what it already holds, and the love that shelters it is also its reward. The source of safety was never a wall around the mind but the love within it.
- Shield: the protection the mind imagines it must construct, revealed as the presence of love that makes all defense unnecessary.
- Reward: the treasure the mind believed it had to earn, shown to be the same love that already keeps it safe.
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Esoteric · Ephesians 6:16
Esoteric
Faith held as a shield is the settled trust in the spirit already within, and it puts out the burning thoughts that fly at a person from the lower mind. The fiery darts are the sudden fears, angers, and cravings that strike the awareness and try to set it alight. When a person rests in the inner word rather than any outer authority or printed page, those flaming thoughts fall short and go dark.
The true word of God is that inner spirit, not any book a hand can hold. Kept close, it becomes a wall the heat cannot cross, and the mind stops catching fire at every provocation.
- Shield: the steady inward trust that covers the awareness and stops the lower mind's assaults
- Fiery darts: the burning thoughts of fear, anger, and craving thrown up by the carnal mind
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