‘Do
not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God, I
will strengthen you and help you… I am the Lord your God who… says to
you, Do not fear; I will help you… I Myself will help you, declares the
Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel’ (Isaiah 41:10-14). When,
Lord, we have something important to say, we repeat ourselves. We want
to make sure that our message gets across. We say, ‘Do you get the
point? Do you see what I mean?’ This, Lord, is what You are doing. Three
times, You say, ‘I will help you’.
You want us to get the point. You want to leave us in no doubt.
You want us to be sure of this: ‘I will help you’. You don’t want us to
go around thinking, ‘I wonder if God will help me?’ You really do want
to help us. You say it once. You say it twice. You say it three times:
‘I will help you’. Thank You, Lord.
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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