Inescapable Truths-"His might"

“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.” – Ephesians 6:10

The Word of God is full of inescapable truths.  Often times statements are made within the scriptures may appear, at face value, as optional, but in fact they are mandatory.  The scripture found above is one of many such statements.  It tells us to “be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.”  At first glance this may seem a suggestion or optional course of action, however, if you want to live for God and make it to a home in heaven, it is a truth that must be lived out; it is inescapable. 

The strength to combat the devil and live victorious in this life can only be found in Jesus and in the power of His might; because of this the devil conveniently tries to make us believe the contrary.  He would have us begin to think that we can withstand anything; he would have us believe that we are strong.  Furthermore, society and the world we live in do not aid us in combating this line of thinking.  All around us the ability of man is glorified, and the ideal of “self” is promoted.  It is commonly reported that the remedy for the problems we face in this world is “more”: more money, more time, more gadgets, more might, more, more, more.  However, trying to combat Satan with the gospel of “more” is like handing a starving man kitchen supplies; all around him is useful tools to fix his problem, but the essentials to combat hunger remain absent.  Jesus Christ, His power and His might are essential to combating the devil and whatever else may come along.  If we want to live a life for God, we must live in Him.  It is not “more”, but “less”: less of ourselves, less of our will, less of our way…..in yielding to Him we find strength in Him.

As we continually and constantly yield our will to His, it only follows that we say and do exactly what he would have us to.  We become totally and completely dependent on His direction and therefore solely supported by Him alone.  We are “strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.”  When you are in this place there is nothing Satan can do to confound you, because Jesus has “overcome the world” and he has put the prince of this world (the devil) under his feet.  We are overcome by the “blood of the Lamb and the word of his testimony.”  Your life has a testimony of Christ and Christ alone, so it stands to reason that you can only but overcome, because he has overcame.  He overcame it all for us so that we could overcome; and he left for us truths in the scripture to follow after and made them inescapable, for our benefit.  These truths were not to be considered optional or debatable; they had to be absolute because to not adhere to them is to put your soul at risk.  If we want to serve God and make it to a home in heaven these inescapable truths must be applied to our lives.  They are made inescapable, not so that we may feel confined by them; in fact it is just the opposite.  They are made inescapable so that we may be free.