25"No man shall be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, just as He has said to you.
Here is a promise that we find God giving the children of Israel. They have been delivered from the bondage of 400 years in Egypt. They are in the wilderness and on their way to the Promised Land. God tells the children of Israel, 25"No man shall be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, just as He has said to you.
This is a great promise! On occasions I hear this promise repeated today. I believe there is some justification for repeating this promise to believers today. However, if we are going to repeat the promise, we have to back up and repeat the condition to the promise. Look at verse 22, "For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do-to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him- 23"then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess greater and mightier nations than yourselves."
God promises that He will assume responsibility for people who keep His commandments and love the Lord and walk in His ways and hold fast to Him in prayer. This was true for the children of Israel and it is true for you and me today. God has not changed. He wants to be our God and He wants us to be His people.
Listen to the word that God gives to the children of Israel following the promise He gave to them. 26"Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: 27"the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you today; 28"and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.
You and I have this great promise from God as well. There are conditions that we must adhere to if we want to benefit from God's promises of victory for us. There are also words of warning that we must heed as well. God wants to bless us and He wants to meet our need and fight our battles. His word is for our benefit. There are blessings to following His Word but there are curses to refusing to follow His instruction.
We need to pray for strength to heed God's Word for His glory and our benefit.
A Pastor's thoughts about the Scripture and it's influence in our lives.
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