Jayamsih..! Welcome to today’s devotion!
Inability to face God
Genesis 3:15, Romans 16:20
- Satan always wins badly. Whatever he does against God, he ends up being his own revelation of his own weakness, and ends up being unable to cope with God’s power.
Someone sins seven times, but God forgives and forgets. It reveals everything to God and not to Satan. In Daniel 3, 3 Hebrew boys were thrown into a fiery furnace heated seven times. The purpose was to kill them. But what it did was reveal the fourth man. Satan encouraged the rulers to throw Daniel into the lion’s den. The aim was that they would be eaten. But what it did do was reveal the prophet’s break in faith in God, when the lions refused to eat that night.
Satan launched a provocation to persecute, the purpose of which was to put Paul and Silas in prison and stop God’s work. All it did was cause an earthquake, and the jailer and his family were saved.
David sinned wickedly and God punished him. But he and Batsheva had a son; Solomon, who became the wisest man on earth according to human standards. Satan enabled David to do some evil deeds, but it ended up being a blessing to fill the whole world with wisdom.
Although sin was absolutely evil, God’s mercy was revealed in life, against Satan’s plot to destroy the king.
How sad it must be, to be the devil. You think you have the situation in your hands and you are mocked by the weakness of men, who have been made strong by God. God uses Satan’s tricks as a tool to reveal who really has and will continue to have power. - Today’s Reading: Psalms 145-147