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Confident In God's Defence

Sunday November 15, 2020

How many of us have taken time through prayer and meditation on God’s Word to learn about God, about His ways, and about His promises to those of us who have given our will and life into His care.  The writer of the following Psalm is confident that God will defend him in all circumstances because his heart and life are true and right before God.

 God is my shield; he will defend me. He saves those whose hearts and lives are true and right. God is a judge who is perfectly fair, and he is angry with the wicked every day. Unless they repent, he will sharpen his sword and slay them. He has bent and strung his bow and fitted it with deadly arrows made from shafts of fire. The wicked man conceives an evil plot, labors with its dark details, and brings to birth his treachery and lies; let him fall into his own trap. May the violence he plans for others boomerang upon himself; let him die. Oh, how grateful and thankful I am to the Lord because he is so good. I will sing praise to the name of the Lord who is above all lords. (Psalm 7:10-17 TLB)

God is not willing that any should perish but that all would repent and turn away from sin. Many of us want to linger on the fringes of our sinful ways and reserve the right to call on God when we need Him.  God is a perfectly fair judge and He will warn us of the danger to ourselves when we set our minds against obeying His ways.  God is patient with us and when we repent of any wrongdoing, He is faithful to forgive us.  However, we cannot carry on disobeying His principles and expect the blessing of God in our lives.

 Jesus willingly suffered the punishment for all the evil done in this world so that we could be made right with God.  Our Heavenly Father received Jesus’ sacrifice on our behalf. We can be confident that when we are walking in God’s ways, but stumble into sin, if we repent and confess our sin, God is faithful and will forgive our sin and make us right with Him again.  When we have the choice of making peace with God this way, why would we ever want to go back to our sinful life and fall from our secure position?

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, I am thankful for all that Jesus has done for me. Please strengthen me to keep doing what is right in Your eyes.  Amen

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