“And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord to deliver thee.”
The Lord called Jeremiah to prophesy to the people of Judah just before they were went into captivity in Babylon. There are some things that we need to remember when the Lord calls us to serve Him in some capacity. The first thing that I noticed is the Jeremiah was warned that “they shall fight against thee.” If you have read the book of Jeremiah, you know that the Lord did not overstate. I recall that the same sort of promise was given to Paul when he was called to minister to the Gentiles. Here is what the Lord told Ananias: “But the Lord said unto (Ananias) Go your way for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel. For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.” (Acts 9:15-16) I do not mean to discourage you, but if you haven’t found it out already, serving the Lord can get difficult at times. As with Jeremiah and Paul, the Lord would not call us to serve Him if He did not know that we could handle it. The second thing I noticed was that the Lord gave Jeremiah a word of encouragement that we can apply to our own calls to service: “but they shall not prevail against thee.” Jeremiah went about doing God’s will and saying to the people what the Lord gave him to say, and they did fight against him, but they did not stop him. We may not win every battle, but if we are doing God’s will in God’s way, we will prevail and negative people will not be able to stop us, or “prevail against” us. We can say the same about Paul. He did suffer in serving the Lord, but they did not stop him from doing what God called him to do. If you know that you are doing God’s will, keep on keeping on. The third thing that I noticed was a promise that the Lord gave Jeremiah: “For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.” The Lord has promised to be with us in every encounter in our service. When we do the Lord’s will, we will never be alone because He will always be with us. He was with Jeremiah, he was with Paul, indeed, with all of His servants and there is no reason for us not to take this promise as our own. It was always a comfort to me that the Lord was with me when I was doing His will. I did not always win, but I never stopped. This is what we need to do. The going will not always be easy, and sometimes we might want to get discouraged, but the Lord has promised to be with us and we will not be stopped in what He has called us to do. Bro. Joe
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