They will not prevail

"Therefore prepare yourself and arise, And speak to them all that I command you. Do not be dismayed before their faces, Lest I dismay you before them. For behold, I have made you this day A fortified city and an iron pillar, And bronze walls against the whole land— Against the kings of Judah, Against its princes, Against its priests, And against the people of the land. They will fight against you, But they shall not prevail against you. For I am with you," says the LORD, "to deliver you." – Jeremiah 1v17-19

Nobody ever said that life was going to be easy. It is kind of like what Westley told Buttercup in ‘The Princess Bride,’ ‘Life is pain, Highness, anybody who tells you differently is trying to sell you something.’

Some preachers will stand in the pulpit and tell us that once we get saved and give our lives to God everything is going to be fine and dandy. They tell us that we have enough faith everything is going to be great. They say that if we send them a few bob in faith God will pour at the blessings and we will be on the easy road.

To use an old word – balderdash. Life is tough and salvation doesn’t change that.

If there was any doubt God makes it clear to Jeremiah. God tells him to get going. He describes all that He is going to do to protect Jeremiah, then he clearly says ‘they will fight against you.’ But ‘don’t be dismayed’ he says because they ‘will not prevail against you because I am with you to deliver you!’

This weekend’s fear and hard times and difficulties are not going away. They battles of 2012 are going to come. But rest assured that we don’t have to face them alone. When we are in the battle let’s be sure to remember that we are not alone.