‘The
Lord’ is ‘the Fountain of living water’ (Jeremiah 17:13). You say to
us, ‘With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation’ (Isaiah
12:3). We can be ‘like a tree planted by water’, a tree that ‘does not
cease to bear fruit’ (Jeremiah 17:8; Psalm 1:3). You speak Your Word to
us: ‘“Where is the Word of the Lord?” Let it come!’ (Jeremiah 17:15;
Psalm 1:2) You bring Your salvation to us: ‘Save me, and I will
saved’(Jeremiah 17:14; Psalm 1:6). You give Your blessing to us:
‘Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord’ (Jeremiah 17:7: Psalm 1:1).
We rejoice in Your ‘eternal love. We drink from ‘the streams of living
waters’ – and we discover that ‘grace,… like the Lord the Giver, never
fails from age to age.’ Help us, Lord, to press on to Your heavenly and
eternal glory: ‘In Your presence is fullness of joy. At Your right hand
are pleasures for evermore’ (Psalm 16:11).
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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