Trust the Captain of Your Salvation (May 30, 2024)

“…for the Lord your God is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.” (Deuteronomy 20:4)

Life can be viewed as a battleground where we are engaged on multiple fronts in deadly warfare against a host of imposing enemies that seek to defeat and destroy us. In the physical world, many face such formidable foes as disease, addiction, poverty, relational issues, terrorism, hunger, natural and manmade disasters, and countless unseen dangers that lurk in the darkness of an evil world eager to strike. In the spiritual realm, Satan and his demonic forces seek to deceptively lead us into captivity to our fleshly lusts and entrap us in servitude to our sinful desires the ultimate consequence of which is death. We must be vigilant because our “adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.” (1 Peter 5:8)

“But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Corinthians 15:57)

As physical and spiritual warfare rages all around us, we can be assured as followers of Jesus Christ that while the battles of life in a fallen world are unceasing, the war has already been won! Christ sent Satan to a crushing defeat at Calvary two thousand years ago when the LORD died to free us from sin’s bondage and left an empty tomb when He arose three days later, triumphant over spiritual death. We can all share in Jesus’ resounding victory over sin and death when we ally ourselves with Him through faith and, by God’s amazing grace, claim the spoils of this epic struggle—abundant and eternal life! In every battle of life, trusting believers and soldiers of the cross can be certain that Jesus is “the captain of their salvation.”  (Hebrews 2:10)