ARE YOU A FORT? YOU'D BETTER BE!

Milton and I like to tour forts. Anytime we’re traveling, and we find out there’s a fort in the area, we try to see it. There’s Fort Clinch on Amelia Island in Florida, standing high above the Atlantic Ocean. There, the tour guides dress in period costume, 1800s-style, and when you ask them a question, they answer according to the knowledge a person of that era would know.

“Is the fort accessible to strollers?” a young father asked at the beginning of our tour, pushing a baby in a Winnie the Pooh stroller.

The tour guide scratched his head, a blank look in his eyes. “Accessible to what, did you say?”

With a sweep of his hand, the father gestured down at his child. “Strollers.”

“Ah. Occasionally we see perambulators but not very often. Most people carry their babes.”

Then there’s Fort Caroline in Jacksonville, Florida, on the St. John’s River, what the French Hugenots founded inthe 1600s. Then there’s Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, Florida, perched on the Atlantic Ocean like Fort Clinch. Awesome. (Can you tell I’m a Florida native and proud of it?)

Then there’s El Morro in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where our daughter lives, overlooking the sparkling turquoise Caribbean Ocean. Then there’s the fort in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, also on the Caribbean.

Fort.

Barrier.

Citadel.

Stronghold.

Bulwark.

Are you getting the picture? Of what? you ask.

If we are to be pure, we must picture ourselves like a fort. And what does a fort do? Well, in all the forts we’ve visited, we’ve found they do two distinct things:

1) they protect against attack;

2) they attack against the enemy.

What amazing thoughts in light of spirituality. What comforting thoughts. Through the power of the Holy Spirit residing in us, we can: 1) protect ourselves from attack; and 2) attack the enemy of our souls, Satan.

And I'm referring particularly to being morally pure and refraining from sexual sin.

How?

More later…

Coming soon..."Ten Symptoms of a Pre-Adultery Condition"

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