Lord,
You call us to ‘return’ to You (Jeremiah 3:14,22). You call us to make
our response to You. You invite us to say, ‘Yes, we will come to You,
for You are the Lord our God’ (Jeremiah 3:22). How are we to come to
You? We are to come to You, confessing our sins – ‘We have sinned
against the Lord our God’ (Jeremiah 3:25). We are to come to You,
trusting You to save us – ‘Surely in the Lord our God is the salvation
of Israel’ (Jeremiah 3:23). We thank You, Lord, for all the blessings
that You give to those who return to You. You are ‘merciful’ to us.
You do ‘not treat us as our sins deserve’ (Jeremiah 3:12, Psalm
103:10). We become Your children. We call You, ‘Father’ (Jeremiah 3:19;
Galatians 4:6). You ‘cure us of our backsliding.’ ‘In Christ’, we become
‘a new creation’ (Jeremiah 3:22; 2 Corinthians 5:17). 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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