Let’s suppose you are a kid again in the 4th grade and every day at recess the big 6th grader, who is a bully, threatens you.
He even beats you up.
You go to school every day scared, insecure, and defeated.
Then you realize your brother has a friend in the 6th grade who is the biggest guy at school, and the strongest.
So, you go to your brother and ask him to have his friend be on your side.
So he agrees and the next time this bully comes to get you, you now are courageous, secure, and victorious.
Why? It is not because you have changed and suddenly got bigger and stronger, it is because of who is on your side and who has become your source of security.
In Romans 8:31 it says:
“If God is for us, who can be against us?”
We, as believers, have the Lord on our side.
We didn’t suddenly become stronger and able to defeat our enemy; it is who we have on our side and who is our source of security.
We are secure and victorious in Christ, and we can be courageous, secure, and victorious in our experience because Christ is on our side.
The idea is:
“In view of the fact that God is on our side, what can any enemy possibly achieve against us?”
Our enemies include the power of sin working through the flesh, the world, and Satan and his host.
They are all against us and try to hinder our walk with Christ and take away our sense of security in this life.
A believer was fleeing from his enemies during persecution in North Africa.
Pursued over a hill and through a valley with no place to hide, he fell exhausted into a cave, expecting to be caught.
Awaiting his death, he saw a spider weaving a web.
Within minutes, the spider had woven a beautiful web across the mouth of the cave.
The man’s pursuers arrived, but on seeing the unbroken web assumed it impossible for him to have entered the cave.
Later that believer exclaimed, “Where God is, a spider’s web is like a wall. Where God is not, a wall is like a spider’s web.”
The power of any possible enemy is seen as utterly and totally weak in comparison to our all-powerful Jesus Christ!
May we trust Him for our victory and security.
Blessings!
Pastor Ken Keeler