day no. 15,788: if you want to get up, you got to get down

Jeremiah 1:19
They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, declares the LORD, to deliver you.

God provides four assurances:

(1) They will fight against you
(2) They will not prevail against you
(3) God will be with you

(4) God will deliver you 

God's people should expect resistance. The enemies of God will not go quietly into that good light.

We should expect push back, but we shouldn't expect to be pushed entirely back. The kingdom of God is like leaven working its way through the lump – slowly, but surely.  The Kingdom is not like the ascent of a rocket ship, straight up; but like that of a mountain, with frequent descents on the way to the summit. 

God is with you. While the enemy is against you, He is not. Remember that. Do not be defined by who you are against, but by Who you are with and let your enemies be those who oppose who you are first for.

God will deliver you: from your enemies, from their efforts, from your failures, from your fears.

Rest assured, all of this will take place. The will of God is inescapable. It is not a question of IF?, but WHEN? and HOW? Yet God's command is not for us to know or decipher the how's and when's (Dt. 29:29), but to fight the good fight of believing His promises where we are. His will is indomitable and for those who love Him, that is their only comfort in death and life.