‘That He might deliver us from this present evil age’ is part of Paul’s opened prayer for the Galatians. Paul saw his day as being an evil day. Sin was indeed rampant. In reality I think every day since then has been an evil day.
When we look at our day today it is hard to imagine it getting any worse. Sadly though it will keep getting worse and worse. Paul writes that evil men and seducers will wax worse and worse as we see the day approaching.
How are we going to survive? How are we to avoid the evil?
For one thing we must want to be kept. The question is moot if we are happy enough to just carry on in the world.
But we have the joy to know that at the end of the day we have already been delivered from this present evil age. We don’t have tobe part of the filth and mire of this evil world. We are citizens of heaven This world is not our home. We are just passing though. The affairs of this world are not our affairs. And yet, that is where we tend to spend our time and efforts and resources.
This world cannot defeat us. Our flesh cannot defeat us. Satan can not defeat. God has delivered and will deliver us.
Praise God we can live in His deliverance.
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