In the third stanza of Martin Luther’s hymn, A Mighty Fortress is Our God, it reads…
And though this world, with devils filled,
should threaten to undo us,
we will not fear, for God hath willed
his truth to triumph through us.
The Prince of Darkness grim,
we tremble not for him;
his rage we can endure,
for lo, his doom is sure;
one little word shall fell him.
The Man Christ Jesus defeated the most powerful force in the universe (apart from God), by using the scriptures. With every one of Satan’s moves, quoting from one book, Deuteronomy, the Son of God would checkmate him with, “It is written.” And what our Lord used to defeat the devil is available to you and me.
I like how Amy Carmichael put it, “The only thing that matters is to throw all the energies of our being into the faithful use of this precious blade.” But to do this one must, as I like to say, be soaked in the scriptures. As one writer has said of Christ, “His mind was a storehouse of the Words of God.” And so must ours be, if we are to overcome the wicked one.
Personally I have never been big on memorization, but rather familiarization. Jesus said we are to live by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God, not select passages. O, how precious to behold a man or woman whose entire being is governed by the principles as they are found in God’s Word! Was He called the LIVING WORD because His soul was saturated with the WRITTEN WORD? I don’t know the answer to my question. But I know the statement is true.
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