A hammer and a fire

"Is not My word like a fire?" says the LORD, "And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? – Jeremiah 23v29

It sure doesn’t seem like there is much hope, does it? Evil is progressing at such a rate that it seems like we have no hope and nothing to stem the vicious tide of wickedness.

Jeremiah lived in day a lot like this. He knew that he would have no visible success because God told him that would be the case. He was going to live and preach and minister but it was not going to do any good as far as stemming the tide of societal destruction.

If all we looked at was what is going on in society we might as well give up. We might as well quit. If we are going to let the world pick our battles and contend in those battles with their weapons we are always going to lose.

But God says that we have another more important battle to fight. He says we have a more important weapon in our warfare. ‘Isn’t my word like a fire? Isn’t it like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?’

We have a weapon in the warfare that is truly important. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, they are spiritual. We have been caught up in trying to fight a spiritual battle with carnal weapons.

We have a much more important battle to fight. We have the weapons. We have the right Commander. We have the battle plans. Let’s get to it, shall we?