"Love is as strong as death ... It burns like a blazing fire, like a
mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown
it" (Song of Solomon 7:6-7). We thank You, Lord, that Your love is the
greatest love of all: "Nothing can separate us from the love of God in
Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:38-39). We can never earn Your love:
"If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, it would be
utterly scorned" (Song of Solomon 8:7). Your love is always Your gift to
us. May Your love burn, in our hearts, "like a blazing fire, like a
mighty flame" - a fire that burns up our dross, a refining fire that
purifies us, a flame that burns for Your glory.
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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