In search of God

Isaiah 44:9-20, ‘All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame. Who shapes a god and casts an idol, which can profit him nothing? He and his kind will be put to shame; craftsmen are nothing but men. Let them come together and take their stand; they will be brought down in terror and infamy. The blacksmith takes a tool and works with it in the coals; he shapes an idol with hammers, he forges it with the might of his arm. He gets hungry and loses his strength; he drinks no water and grows faint. The carpenter measures the line and makes an outline with a marker; he roughs it out with chisels and marks it with compasses. He shapes it in the form of a man, of man in all his glory, that it may dwell in shrine. He cuts down cedars, or perhaps took a cypress or oak. He let it grow among the tress of the forest, or planted a pine, and the rain made it grow. It is man’s fuel for b...

James 4:7, ‘Submit yourselves, then to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.’ The only way that you can effectively resist the devil is by submitting yourself to God in total obedience. When we submit ourselves to God, His Holy Spirit dwells in us, He ministers to us and teaches us the way to live pleasing God. His laws are then written in our hearts and therein lies our power to defeat and chase away the devil. He cannot and accuse and condemn us to guilt because we know that in Christ we are credited with righteousness and our sins are remembered no more. He cannot deceive us because we know what the will of God for our lives is. He cannot tempt us with sin because in Christ we are dead to sin and are no longer its slaves and we now have the power to overcome sin. Without the Holy Spirit, living in you, you will not have the power to overcome and resist the great tempter, deceiver and accuser that is the devil.