Wed., 5/30/18 Devotion (Deut. 3:22)

Today's encouragement comes from Deuteronomy 3:22, where God spoke these words to Moses (and to all His church):

"You must not fear them, for the LORD your God Himself fights for you."

These words are in reference to God's people conquering kingdoms that were occupying God's promised land. The same principle holds today: the world, the flesh, and the devil seek to stand in the way of the advancing army of the church—and these enemies put up a fairly good fight, from time to time. But the children of God are not to fear them at all—and the reason is that "God Himself fights for [us]."

With this perspective, why should any faithful Christian churchman be down-cast, discouraged, or disheartened? No one can beat the faithful saints.

[Puritan quote of the day: "In a word, as Christ's Person excels your person, so His obedience infinitely exceeds your disobedience.” —Christopher Love, in, "The Dejected Soul's Cure"]