Lord,
You speak to us the Word of condemnation. You tell us that we are "a
perverse generation" You tell us that "You will hide Your face from us"
(Deuteronomy 32:20). You also speak to us the Word of compassion - "The
Lord will ... have compassion on His servants, when He sees their power
is gone" (Deuteronomy 32:26). Help us, Lord, to hear the Word of
condemnation - to know that "our power has gone", so that we can hear
the Word of compassion, the Word that comes to us in our weakness, the
Word that brings us into Your strength - "a new creation in Jesus
Christ" (2 Corinthians 5:17).
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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