They will not prevail

They will fight against you, But they shall not prevail against you. For I am with you," says the LORD, "to deliver you." – Jeremiah 1.19

One of the realities of life that we don’t like to hear or think about is that life is a battle. Right from the very start Jeremiah is told ‘the people of this land are going to fight against you.’ That kind of warning is not just for Jeremiah. In the New Testament we are also told ‘those who live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.’

So tough times are going to be a part of life for God’s people. As a rule the world is not going to like us. Our lives are never going to fit in with the world. We live for eternity, they live for now. We focus on invisible eternal things and the world focuses on the visible temporal things.

We can’t get lazy. We can’t get lethargic. We can’t get lackadaisical. The trifold enemy of the world, the flesh, and the devil are not going to give up.

But the good news is that ‘they shall not prevail against you.’ They can’t win. They can’t win because God says ‘I am with you to deliver you.’

God is on our side. We cannot fear what man can do to us. Though the battle may seem hard and the days seem dark and fearsome we are going to prevail in the end because God has promised ‘I will never leave you or forsake you.’