July 27
“The Lord your God will go before you and fight for you…” Deuteronomy 1:30.
The old hymn says, “Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine…” and that covers it all. Yes. It covers everything you can ever face in time or in eternity. The greatest blessing of all is the salvation Jesus supplies to every believer through His propitiatory life, death and resurrection.
Because He lived the perfect life we cannot live, because He paid the penalty of death that God requires for sin, and because He arose from the tomb that glorious morning, we who have placed our lives at His feet are free! As the Word assures, “The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus,” Romans 6:23.
In his second letter to the Thessalonians, Paul says, “The Lord is faithful and will give you strength and will protect you from the evil one,” II Thessalonians 3:3. This verse acknowledges that there will be attacks against the believer because the Lord’s ancient foe “goes about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may destroy,” I Peter 5:8.
We are powerless against the onslaught of a predatory lion, but we don’t have to face him in our own strength. As David slew the lions that came against his sheep (I Samuel 17:34-37), so our Good Shepherd has rendered the enemy of our soul to be powerless against us!
That promise is beautifully stated in Exodus 23:22, “If you will harken to all My words, I will be an enemy to your enemy; I will fight against anyone and everyone who fights against you.” This is indeed a blessed assurance! This is indeed a promise that transcends our own frailty and encompasses the power of the One who overcomes all the devices of the enemy—even overcoming death itself!
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