‘O Lord… Be our strength every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble’
(Isaiah 33:2). Help us, Lord, not only to pray to You ‘in the time of
trouble.’ Help us to pray to You ‘every morning.’ May we not keep You at
a distance, calling on You only when things are going badly. When we
keep You at a distance, our life tells its own sad story – ‘O what peace
we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear – all because we do not
carry everything to God in prayer.’ When we draw near to You, Lord,
You draw near to us, and everything becomes very different – ‘What a
Friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear! What a
privilege to carry everything to God in prayer!’ (James 4:8). Lord, let
Your ‘love’ come to us ‘new every morning’ – ‘fresh as the morning , as
sure as the sunrise’ (Lamentations 3:22-23).
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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