‘In
returning and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your
strength, but you would have none of it. You said, “No!”’ (Isaiah
30:15-16). Lord, You want to bless us. You want to be our ‘salvation.’
You want to be our ‘strength.’ How do You bless us? How do You become
our ‘salvation’? How do You become our ‘strength’? We must want Your
blessing. We must want Your ‘salvation.’ We must want Your ‘strength.’
We must return to You and rest in You. We must quietly listen to Your
Word, putting our trust in You. There is no ‘salvation’ without
‘returning and rest.’ There is no ‘strength’ without ‘quietness and
trust.’ You, Lord, do not force Yourself upon us. We can say, ‘No! I
will have none of it’. You want to bless you. Help us, Lord, to say,
‘Yes, Lord! I want You to be my salvation. I want You to be my strength.’
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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