Good Morning Friends,
“Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:
‘Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the
authority of his Christ. For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them
before our God day and night, has been hurled down. They overcame him by the blood
of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives
so much as to shrink from death. Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who
dwell in them! But woe to the earth and
the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury,
because he knows that his time is short.’” (Revelation 12:10-12)
There has been a war in heaven, and Satan has
lost. His doom is sealed. He rose up against God and recruited other angels to
join the rebellion, but he could not defeat God. It was futile for him to try
to overthrow God, but in his arrogance he thought that it was possible. It led
to his defeat and sealed his destruction. And now he lives to accuse those who
follow God, to point out our sins to God and bring trouble to us on the earth. He
tried to bring trouble in heaven and failed and so has turned to the earth to
unleash his fury.
How can we ever overcome the power of Satan? He
knows our sin and many of his accusations are correct. He doesn’t have to make
up lies about us, the truth is bad enough! He knows our weaknesses and sets
before us temptation after temptation, plotted to be especially alluring to us.
There is only one way to overcome his power
in our lives and make his accusations futile. It’s only through the work of
Jesus in our lives! It is through the blood of the Lamb that Satan’s power over
us becomes impotent. It is through the word of our testimony of what Christ has
done for us that he flees in failure from our lives. It is through our
whole-hearted commitment to the Lord -- loving Jesus more than life itself --
that Satan cannot touch us.
He’ll keep trying with all his power, raging
at us and bringing turmoil to the world. He knows his time is short, so should
we! Satan has been defeated. God has been victorious. In Christ, we are
victorious, too.
His, by Grace,
Steve
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