Help us, Lord, to see clearly the great contrast between those who belong to Christ - ‘My servants
will sing out of the joy of their hearts’ - and those who have refused
to come to Christ for salvation - ‘You will cry out from anguish of
heart and wail in brokenness of spirit’ (Isaiah 65:14). You are preparing a great
future ‘for those who love Him’ - ‘I will create a new heaven and a new
earth’. You are calling us away from our sins - ‘Past things will not be
remembered. They will not come to mind’. You are calling us to Your ‘holy
mountain’. How can we enter into our full enjoyment of God’s eternal
salvation? Your Word tells us: ‘I will pay attention to those who are
humble and sorry for their sins and who tremble at My Word’ (Isaiah 65:17,25;
Isaiah 66:2; 1 Corinthians 2:9). Help us to make sure that we belong to Christ. May we put our
faith in Him (John 3:18,36).
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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