Day 4 - October 28 - Judges 3:9

Your Name is DELIVERER

4Mighty Lord, wherever the great battlefront is today,

I trust you to be my victory.

Identify your personal points of struggle. Now trust him to be stronger than the enemies.

 

But when the Israelites cried out to the Lord,

the Lord raised up a deliverer for the Israelites ...

Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.

Judges 3:9

 

Judges is one of my favorite books in the Bible to teach. I can summarize the whole book in five simple sentences:

1. When things were bad, the people cried out for help.
2. God sent them a deliverer.
3. Then things became good ... and the people forgot about God.
4. So God removed his hand of protection.
5. And then things became bad ... (go back to 1, and repeat process about forty times for forty generations).

From time to time, every one of us struggles in life. In fact, let's call it what it is: Life is an ongoing series of battlefronts.

 

So, heed the Bible's simple advice: Do steps one and two -- 1) cry out to God and 2) expect his help -- then repeat. Indeed, that's our prayer invitation for today: 1) Identify your personal points of struggle (and don't just make a mental checklist, talk to God about it!). 2) Then trust him to be stronger than your enemies.

 

(And while you're at it, just skip steps 3 and 4. So you have time to keep repeating 1 and 2.)

 

In Christ's Love,

a guy who's not the pizza man

(I don't deliver ... but God does)