91. God Fights for you
Deuteronomy 1:30 The Lord your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes.
This promise was given specifically to Moses to give to the people on the occasion of their near entry into the Promised Land. The Lord will go in front of the people and He will fight for them. He did it before and you saw Him fight for you and defeat your enemies in Egypt. Now you can trust Him to do the same for you, as you get ready to conquer and occupy the land that the Lord promised to you. Go forward with this promise in you mind: The Lord will fight for you. The Lord did indeed fight for the people many times through Joshua, and the Judges, and David, and the other kings of Judah.
This promise can be extended to apply to each of us as believers in Christ. Just as God has fought for His people through the OT fulfillment of the promise, just as He fought for us against our spiritual enemies in Jesus Christ, our Savior and Victor, and just as He has fought for us throughout history and through the history of our own lives, so He will fight for you today and in your future. The Lord is going before you into your new day each day, and while spiritual enemies will ambush and attack your soul and body the Lord will fight for you.
This wonderful promise means we are not alone to try to fight off sin, death, and the devil by ourselves. On our own we would surely lose. But the Lord is on our side, and He has already gained the victory over each of these spiritual enemies. We will still fall into sin, we will die, and the devil is always nearby with his lies and scares, but we know beyond a doubt that we, through Jesus, will win in the end. Sometimes while we are in middle of issues we can’t see a way out. We forget what the Lord did for us in the past, and we may be uncertain about the future, so we get distressed in the present. That is when we need this promise: The Lord fights for me. Give it to Jesus and let Him do the fighting. He did it before, and He’ll do it again.