Promise 120: Tread Down Enemies

  1. Tread down enemies

 Psalm 60:12

Through God we shall do valiantly:

For he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

 God promises to tread down our enemies: Jesus crushed the head of the Serpent. This promise has been fulfilled on Golgotha and secured at the Empty Tomb. This Victory of Jesus the Overcomer comes into our daily lives and He continues to tread down, walk on, crush, and defeat the enemies that nettle, tease, bother, worry, and nag at us on a daily basis. Whether these enemies appear overwhelming or trivial in our lives God will still tread them down.

“The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.” (Romans 16:20) “Soon” means today or tomorrow; it means presently, in the middle of your lives, God intervenes and crushes the Enemy under your feet. “Your feet” makes it feel like it is we ourselves who are doing it while it is God who is doing the crushing. “Through God we shall do valiantly” may be confusing; is it we or is it God who is doing it? God is treading though it feels like us. We do valiantly but it is through God; God is doing it, even if it feels like we are doing something. Actually, we are doing nothing; God is using us as His instrument to overcome and tread down. While God is doing it all and crushing the enemies, it may look and feel to us as though we are doing something. Although “we shall do valiantly,” in reality we do nothing; God does it all even though it feels like we are treading down. When God saves us, when God touches us, when God uses us we are blessed and sometimes we can sense activity, but we will never take credit, even a little, for something that God is doing. God is answering a prayer, but we do not take credit for praying. God forgives, but we do not take credit for deciding to let Him. God treads down the enemy under our feet, but we do not take credit for doing valiantly.

God gets the credit; God receives the thanks; God earns the praise. He is the One who Promises.