‘I,
the
Lord, am your Saviour, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob’. Help us,
Lord, not to keep this to ourselves. You want ‘all mankind’ to ‘know’
(Isaiah 49:26).
‘Jesus, the Name to sinners dear, the Name to sinners given, it scatters
all their guilty fear, it turns their hell to heaven’ - This is not
something to keep to ourselves. We must make Christ known to others -
‘Oh, that the world might taste and see the riches of His grace! The
arms of love that compass me, would all mankind embrace. His only
righteousness I show, His saving truth proclaim: ‘tis all my business
here below to cry: “Behold the Lamb!”. Happy, if with my latest breath I
may but gasp His Name: preach Him to all, and cry in death: “Behold,
behold the Lamb!”’ (Mission Praise, 385). Help us, Lord, to be obedient to Your call to ‘go into all the world and preach the Good News’ (Mark 16:15).
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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