Wednesday, March 23, 2022
The World Is Full of Challenges,
Doch
None Can Conquer Us,
for Jesus has Conquered the World.
2 Samuel 22:2
The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.
John 16:33
I have said this to you, so that in me you may have peace. In the world you face persecution. But take courage; I have conquered the world!
Words of Grace For Today
To whom do we look for security, for deliverance, for help in our distress?
If you, the reader think that you will not be persecuted, then either you are one who has chosen to be one of the persecutors, or you are simply blind, deliriously blind, to the reality of what others are doing to you.
All of the rest of us surely know we are persecuted, for our days are made more and more difficult by what others do to us, trying to ‘step on us’ to get ahead.
Ahh, what all the world does to us! It is best not to recount all the evil done to us. It is simply too depressing, unless …
We need not let ourselves sink into this dark reality, as if we were all alone in our misery (along with all the other people oppressed and stomped on into misery). For we know The Lord is our rock, our fortress, and our deliverer.
Even more so, though the people in this world may persecute us endlessly, we know that Jesus has conquered the world. In Jesus we have peace, peace in the face of everything evil that each day and all sinful people would ‘throw’ at us.
So we take courage. Unfaltering courage for each day, based on God’s protection and Grace for us.
Thus our recounting all the evil we experience is only a small part of the complete story of how God gives us life each day. For we know The Lord is our rock, our fortress, and our deliverer.