Celestial Alliance
"I lift up my eyes to the hills — where does
my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and
earth. He will not let your foot slip — he who watches over you will not
slumber; 4 indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor
sleep. The Lord watches over you — the Lord is your shade at your right
hand; 6 the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord
will keep you from all harm — he will watch over your life; 8 the Lord will
watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore." (Psalm
121 NIV)
The geographical location of Israel among her surrounding countries is
striking. To the North she is bounded by Lebanon and Syria; to the
East Jordan. To the South Egypt and Gaza and to the West the
Mediterranean sea. Adjoining these states are Iran and Iraq which are chief
bellicose nations. Surrounded by hostile states, Israel shares this
peculiarity with no other nation under heaven.
No other nation on earth shares this distinction of being enclosed by belligerent states. In times of crises, Israel is thus constrained to seek for help; not to the south, west, east or north; But upwards to Heaven.
Israel’s geo-political setting is analogous to the believers’ vocational reality. God deliberately places us in difficult circumstances so that we can look up to him ‘ab intra’ perpetually for reprieve. Israel did not choose her location; God did. Neither did she choose her destiny. In the same way, we can not choose or prescribe for God, the predestined experiences we must go through in our daily life. The scope, timing, and degree are God’s prerogative; an act of His Sovereign choice.
Year after year Israel’s chief concern is about security. She constantly
transits from danger to danger coming from her enemies. We also have an
adversary the devil -- See 1 Pet 5:8. ”We are troubled on every side, yet
not distressed; We are perplexed, But not in despair; persecuted, but not
forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed." (2 Cor 4:8-9).
The arena of our tribulation can be the marketplace, family, neighbourhood
and relationships. The challenges or problems whatever their
multiplicity and intensity do not have the capacity to defeat us. This is
because we have an in-built system of resilient insuperability. We get
better, stronger and greater with every encounter. The troubles are meant to
supremely demonstrate the resurrection life & power in every sphere of our
human experiences.
“For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’
sake so that the life of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal body.”
(2 Cor 4:11). We are not expendable; far from it we are indestructible!
How would Israel have captured the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza strip, West Bank,
Golan heights if she was not attacked by a coalition of enemy forces?
Likewise, how can we as saints manifest the resurrection life & power of
Christ Jesus if we do not go through tribulations?
The quintessential nature of the New Creature is that it is indestructible.
We may not know in what form a crisis may occur to us but one thing is sure;
it will come. The same enemy, the same goal but different manifestations of
confrontation.
Whatever the mutation of the opposition, the outcome has been irrevocably
and incontrovertibly delineated. …”you have overcome them because greater
is he that is in you than he that is in the world.” (1 John 4:4)
We are not contending for what we don’t have but as those who already have
everything in Christ Jesus, we are enforcing the post-resurrection ‘status
quo’ of victory daily. Invincible and impregnable, our victory is
incontestable. Consequently, we must conduct our affairs and go through life
with an attitude of victory; our victory is a “fait accompli”. The believer
can never be defeated. He can only be defeated by that which has already
defeated God. It is ONLY after God has been defeated that the believer
will EVER be Defeated.
“… I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you
and have conquered it for you.]” John 16:33 AMP
Regards,
Prince Oshiojum
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