Lord,
we thank You that Your call to holiness begins with Your call to
salvation. We're not left to go it alone. You come to us. You come as
our Saviour. You take us as we are - but You don't leave us the way You
found us. You start changing us. You have great plans for us. You're
making us more like Your Son, Jesus. We trust Jesus. We receive His
salvation. Help us to follow Him, to be changed by Him, to become more
like Him.
We thank You, Lord, that our determined enemy - Satan - is Your defeated enemy. To us, the devil seems so powerful. In Your eyes, He is defeated - defeated by Jesus, our crucified Saviour and risen Lord. Jesus has triumphed over Satan. He has won the victory for us (1 John 3:8; Hebrews 2:14-15). Lord, Your Word says, "Resist the devil and he will flee from you" (James 5:7). Will he really flee from us? He flees from Jesus - but, surely, not from us? Have we not forgotten something? - Jesus won the victory for us. He gives His victory to us. Help us to resist the devil - in the victorious Name of Jesus. He will flee from us. Why? Because Jesus is Lord over Satan. It's not us he's fleeing from. It's Jesus. When the devil comes 'knocking on our door', help us to send Jesus to the door - and send him packing!
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