Moment With The Master
“Confidence for Daily Living”
Categories: Moment With The MasterBut the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.” (2 Thessalonians 3:3)
Living each day for God is often challenged by personal temptations, by people who disappoint us, and by physical trials. Many opportunities for failure and discouragement are presented to the Christian.
Where can the child of God go for help? Certainly, one should be able to go to brethren, or friends or family for support. However, there are times when men fail us, but not God, for He is faithful. Men may disposed to do you wrong but, God will “establish you and guard you from the evil one”. This is the promise of God.
To “establish” is to make stable, to strengthen, to make firm. In Colossians 2:6,7, Paul commands: “As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith.” Believers can be established when they come to God’s word and allow it to influence their lives. It will be manifested by (II Thessalonians 1:3) a growing faith, ( II Thessalonians 1:3) an abounding love, and (II Thessalonians 1:4)an enduring patience.
It is equally reassuring to know that God will faithfully guard us from the evil one. Jesus commands us to pray: “And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one.” (Matthew 6:13) Paul then assures us that God will deliver on our request by providing a way of escape in time of temptation (I Corinthians 10:13). God, according to Ephesians 6:10-17, supplies us with the armor necessary to win the battle. God is faithful!
This is so wonderful to contemplate! What great consolation to the faithful Christian to know that God is always loyal to the “cause” they love. We have all failed God on several occasions, but He has never failed us! God wants us to succeed! He is faithful!
George Slover
