mio devo 2

Deuteronomy 33:26-29

After undergoing so much stress, so much pain, our bodies reach a point where they are on the verge of breaking down, and it becomes so hard to really see God's goodness in our lives. We've all had those times; moments when our refuge doesn't seem to keep out every arrow and every chilling breeze. Moments when we find ourselves waiting for our help from heaven to arrive. Moments when we can’t help but to ask where our shield and helper has gone off to.

After experiencing one of the toughest days of my life and seeing so many others dear to me carrying heavy burdens, I looked back to this passage. It contains some of Moses’ last words to the Israelites, and to this "warped and crooked generation" he blesses them and affirms them of God's goodness. More often than not, we can turn to a passage such as this and see the familiar promises of protection and salvation that, in probably the greatest tragedy of many life-long Christians, we have become desensitized to.

God has something more to say.

He opened up my eyes to something very important. Amidst all the promises of goodness and faithfulness, He left instructions:

“He will drive out your enemies before you, saying, ‘Destroy him!’”

“Your enemies will cower before you, and you will trample down their high places.”

When evil occupies our lives and wages war over our souls, God commands us to be the ones to destroy and trample it.

Just as Moses spoke to the nation of Israel then, God speaks to our Christian community today. When evil is raging amidst the lives of our loved ones, God will equip us to fight it out, but we must fight the battle. God will receive the glory for delivering our enemies into our hands, but that cannot be done if we do not go to war against them.

Fight for your brothers and sisters. Each one of us endures great pain, and some are deeply entrenched and losing hope. God has already given us all we need to help them. He gave us mouths, so encourage each other! He gave us arms, so hug each other! He gave us time, spend it with each other! He gave us hearts, so let them break for each other! He gave us our lives, die for each other! In this way we can destroy the sorrow that weighs so heavily on our souls. We know when our brothers and sisters are in pain, and it’s at those moments when we must act.

God’s goodness only fails to enter someone’s life when someone else doesn’t love them the way God commands them to. He is our shield and helper and glorious sword, but we must still be that arm that wields it.


God Bless

Daniel