Thought For Today - July 17, 2024
An Enemy of Our Enemies!
By: Robert A. Searles
"Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to
bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him, and obey
his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions:
for my name is in him. But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do
all that I speak; then will I be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an
adversary unto thine adversaries. For mine angel shall go before thee,
and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the
Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after
their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down
their images. And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless
thy bread, and thy water, and I will take sickness away from the midst
of thee." Exodus 23: 20-25.
God is here speaking to his children, Israel, and making a covenant
with them for their future welfare and well being. I believe that these
promises apply to all God's children everywhere: Those of us who have
been truly born again, and grafted into the commonwealth of Israel, his
people whom he loved, and chose to be the apple of his eye, and the
nation through whom would come the Messiah, our Lord and savior, Jesus
Christ.
God said that he would send an Angel before them to keep them in the
way, and to bring them unto the place which he had prepared for them.
The
bible says: "The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and that
he would give his angels charge over us to keep us in all our ways."
Jesus
said: " I go to prepare a place for you", and that he would come again
and receive us unto himself so that we would reach our desired haven.
We are told to be conscious of the presence of the Holy Spirit in our
lives, and not to grieve him or provoke him Oh! How well off we are when
God is the enemy of our enemies: Our spiritual enemies such as, sin,
fear worry, sickness, disease, poverty, depression, failure, and our
final enemy, death. God has promised to bless and prosper us if we will
love and serve him only, and have no other Gods before us.
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