Daily Devotion

May 19, 2006

Psalms 119:160  Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

NOTE: The Hebrew text actually says:  “The beginning of thy Word is truth…”

From the beginning, God’s Word has been our link with Salvation: our return to the presence of God.  From the beginning, this Word promised us the final demise of the devil: the end of his power on mankind. Oh how precious are the first sweet Words of promise uttered in the Garden: “And I will put enmity between thee (the serpent (Rev 20:2) and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel (Gen 3:15).

Have you read?  Haven’t you seen?  Day after day, event after event, we read it in the Book of God, we read it in our daily lives.  Every time the enemy would lift his hand against one of God’s children, he ends up in the pit he intended for them, the victim of his own evil devices.

From the beginning, the devil was trying to separate man from God via sin, but from the beginning, through the spirit of yearning and longing, man has learned to know God in a closer and more intimate way than he had ever known Him before.  From the beginning, the devil tried to establish his justice upon us, but from the beginning, it made us all the more appreciate God’s merciful kindness.   From the beginning, the devil has tried to steal our loyalty to God, but from the beginning, it made us cling all the more to Him.

Oh, the precious and true Word of God! From the beginning it has decreed God’s sustained victory over His opponents, the establishment of His Kingdom and righteousness on the earth, the victory of mankind through the Lamb, and the final demise of the devil.  How can we fear, how can we doubt?

Hab 2:14  For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

Rev 12:11  And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

Revelation 20:10  And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.  

Patrick Lumbroso
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