But the powers of darkness are alert, never ceasing in their efforts to drag us down from the realization of our celestial status. Only then did he plead that the saints walk worthily of the Lord, and bear fruit in every good work. Hence the figure of girding the loins stands for the knowledge of the truth. Each part represents some aspect of our spiritual defense. Still more graphic is the thought that we have a complete suit of armor, a panoply, which covers us from head to foot, in our conflict with the spirit world.
Truth gives strength, stability.
Hence the fine figure, girded about your loins with truth . Here is the weakness of the saints today. The powers of darkness have succeeded in covering up the truth, and substituting error. With the book of God in their hands, His people cannot find the truth. Much of what passes as truth must be false, for it is both denied and defended by multitudes who should bind it about their loins.