July 15

We’ve all repeated ourselves for emphasis. When we want to get a point across, one sure-fire method of conveying its importance is to say it again. We may use different words the second or third time, but the intent remains the same—conveying to our listener the absolute assurance that we mean what we’re saying!

God does this, too. The most profound evidence of His desire to get across to His beloved creation the steadfastness of His love and provision for our salvation begins immediately after man’s fall in Genesis, chapter three and continues throughout the scripture until Christ’s final conquest over the enemy of God is proclaimed in the Book of Revelation.

A capsulezed version of the emphasis the Lord has placed upon His absolute intent to be the Savior and Protector of believers is conveyed quite clearly in
II Samuel 22:3 where it says, “God is my Rock; in Him will I take refuge. He is my shield and the Horn of my salvation; He is my stronghold, my Refuge, my Savior. He saves me from evil.”

The Word could not state any more emphatically the intent of our God and King and Father to shield and defend and save to the utmost those who place their trust in Him. When trials assail, when the enemy comes in like a flood against the children of the Living God, even then, the believer may know without doubt that the trial will pass and he will be saved—in time and for eternity!