Satan Desires to Ruin Us All; God Wins!

It’s just true.  Satan has desired to ruin us all from the beginning of time.  The Book says he came to steal, kill, and destroy.  Not good things.  If you don’t know Jesus, Satan wants to keep it that way.  If you do, then Satan either wants to ruin you or at least make you completely ineffective.  To pretend that there is not a spiritual force at work to ruin us is to live in ignorance; in this case, ignorance is not necessarily bliss.

Even so, the plain and inspiring truth is that God wins.  Maybe battles are lost in the war but in the end, God wins.  If we ally ourselves with Him, we win too.  Nothing can stand in the way of God’s victory.  Nothing. 

Although in our day to day lives we may sometimes feel like we’re drowning, God sees.  God knows.  We can still cry to Him in the battle and He will fight for us.  This doesn't resolve everything perfectly according to our plans but it does ally us with the Victor. 

So we need to continually be alert to the schemes of the enemy – to the way he opposes our movement toward God.  At the same time, we must not forget that God is bigger and God wins – even when it feels like we are losing big time.   Pressing into Jesus, allowing His comfort and His strength to help us onward is needful.  Remembering His Sovereignty and that He is always working for His glory and our good is our job.  Our work is to believe – and faith is a gift from God.  While the world works to achieve independence, we work to achieve dependence – on God. 

Rather counter-cultural actually. 

I wrote a song once that has a verse and chorus that goes like this;

“Lord, help me stay in the war. Give me the grace to endure. 

Don’t make it any easier; I've gotta be strong to stand.

Lord, help me stay in the war.” 

 “When the battle’s raging, help me stay.

 War never ceasing, help me pray. 

The others leaving, help me say: By your grace, let me stay.”

It’s what I want to do still.  I want to remember that a battle is going on and I want the grace to stay engaged in the fight.  Otherwise, I’m dying.  Those around me are dying.  I've given up and there’s little purpose left for me.  I know I can’t handle it on my own.  I need God to make me able to stay because human nature wants me to run far away from the pain and the struggle.  I want to be always engaged and always dependent on Him.

"By Your Grace, let me stay."  Victory Awaits!