In George Lucas' Star Wars episodes, deflector shields, particle shields and shield generators either wrap space vessels in a protective screen of energy that blocks or repels incoming attacks or absorbs the kinetic energy from direct and indirect hits. Han Solo's modified Millennium Falcon lightspeed freighter is equipped with a hyperdrive transport nearly twice as fast as any Imperial warship, and sports a military-grade deflector-shield system.
In the real world, the ability to travel many times faster than the speed of light and shroud battleships and fighter planes in protective particle shields doesn't exist. For the Christian, however, God has provided a very real and genuine spiritual shield generator which wraps our shield of faith in a protective screen of "dunamis" energy, and which is capable of blocking or repelling Satan's most destructive fiery darts and projectiles. Dunamis (English, dynamite) is one of the Greek words in the Bible used to describe God's creative and awesome power.
This divine and unique shield generator is described in Galatians 5:6:
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.
The Greek word used for "working" is energeo, of which our English word energy is derived from. "Love" is agape, God's unique word used to denote His love for humanity. In the above verse, agape-love is revealed as the divine generator that energizes and empowers our faith. In a true sense, agape-love wraps our shield of faith in a protective shroud of dunamis, or dynamic, power, which is more than capable of blocking or repelling the fiery darts of the devil.
According to the above verse and its adjoining text, agape-love is the only "force" which can produce a faith capable of pleasing God. This powerful shield generator--agape-love--will also produce a powerful faith in our lives. A powerful faith is capable of effectively resisting Satan and winning souls to the Lord. May this genuine Force be with you each and every day.
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