Life
is full of ups and downs. There are high-points – “The fire of the Lord
fell” and “all the people said, ‘The Lord, He is God’” ( 1 Kings
18:37-39), and there are low-points – ”O Lord, take away my life” (1
Kings 19:4). Lord, we are so changeable. Sometimes, we’re full of joy.
At other times, we’re at the point of despair. We find ourselves in a
turmoil of confused and confusing emotions. What are we to do? What can
we do? Can we pull ourselves together? We try – but we fail. Lord, help
us to look beyond our own efforts. Help us to look to You, to believe
that You can change us, You can come to us in our weakness, You can give
us Your strength – the strength that we need to love You more and bring
more glory to Your Name, the Name of our salvation.
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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