Monday, May 16, 2022

day no. 15,911: we still to conquer go

On earth the usurpers reign,
Exert their baneful power,
O’er the poor fallen sons of men
They tyrannize their hour:

But shall believers fear?
But shall believers fly?
Or see the bloody cross appear,
And all their power defy?

Jesus' tremendous name
Puts all our foes to flight: 
Jesus, the meek, the angry Lamb,
A Lion is in fight.

By all hell's host withstood;
We all hell's host o'erthrow;
And conquering them, through Jesus' blood
We still to conquer go.
— Charles Wesley, Angels Your March Oppose
quoted in Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning and Evening

Christianity is nothing short of the conquest of the entire world by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony.

Revelation 12:11
And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.

The meek inherit the earth. The buried seeds are reborn to brighter skies. Those whose blood is poured out upon the ground will inherit the dirt as their very own forever. 

Habakkuk 2:14
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

The world will be overcome by resurrection and the dead in Christ will cover the land as the water covers the sea.

1 Peter 1:24-25
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

The grass may wither and the flowers for now may fall, but the word of the Lord is forever and those who place their trust in it will be evergreen and in full bloom and eternal sunshine where no frost or winter can wither ever again.

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