How,
Lord, are we to receive Your blessing? Are we to “do some great thing”?
Are we to prove ourselves worthy of Your blessing? No! Your Word says
this: “Wash and be clean” (2 Kings 5:130. Our salvation isn’t something
that we’ve paid for. It isn’t something that we’ve earned. We don’t come
to You, saying, “Look at me. Look at my religion. Look at my morality.”
We look away from ourselves to Jesus – and we hear Your Word of
salvation: “The blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, cleanses us from all
sin” (1 John 1:7).
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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