‘Wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, there is a future
hope for you’ (Proverbs 24:14). Lord, we read what Your Word says to us
about wisdom, and wonder, ” How do we find wisdom?” You tell us to read
Your written Word and to seek Your promised blessing: ‘The law of the
Lord is perfect and revives the soul. The Lord’s instruction never
fails. and makes the simple wise’. As we read Your written Word, keeping
our eyes fixed on Christ, the living ‘Word’ of God’, we discover that
He is the ‘Wisdom’ which is ‘sweeter than honey’and we rejoice in Him,
our ‘Hope of glory’ – ‘You believe in Him and are filled with an
inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your
faith, the salvation of your souls’ (John 1:1-2,14; 1 Corinthians 1:30;
Psalm 19:7,10; Colossians 1:27; 1 Peter 1:8). When, Lord, we ‘ask You’
God’ for ‘wisdom’, help us to remember Your promise: ‘Seek and you will
find’ (James 1:5-8; Matthew 7:7).
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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