Fifth Lord's Day Sunday In Lent

On this fifth Lord’s Day Sunday in Lent, as we keep following our forever Conquering and Omnipotent Lord, through the help and comfort of His Holy Spirit, we are eternally grateful and thankful. He and He alone has brought us to this point of place, where we are now in the final week of Lent, before we enter into Holy Week.

Together, we have travelled some dismally dark and scary paths. We have travelled some light, bright and heavenly paths, where we felt as though our spiritual feet were like deer, skipping and frolicking through green pastureland. We have been brought to solemn, sacred moments, where we just stood and gazed in awe at who our Sovereign Creator God is. We have shed many tears and felt sadness and heaviness of heart, as the tempter came our way.

But today, on this first day of another precious, new week, in spite of all that we have experienced, all that we have passed through, the deceiver has not been victorious in taking us away from our beloved Lord. Holy Spirit has not failed in keeping us from yielding to the temptations of the devil.

We want to shout with all the strength and might that we have, that it is God and God alone who has kept us, and not we ourselves, through every single trial and temptation. We have seen in clear light, how we have been saved time and time again by the grace of God. With the Psalmist we can honestly confess this word of truth. I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Psalm 27: 13 NKJV

Again, in Psalm 124 NKJV, we stand under the umbrella of the Psalmist’s words, sheltering with him in united voice, as we mouth his testimony about our One, True, ever present, helping and healing Sovereign, Creator God.  I need to bring us the full Psalm, for this umbrella is opened wide to us. Enter into the Lord’s Rest.  

If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, Let Israel say – If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us, then they would have swallowed us alive, when their wrath was kindled against us; then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul; then the swollen waters would have gone over our soul. Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth. Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken and we have escaped. Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

What other response can we give, but an exuberating, triumphant, Amen! Thank You Father for Your most precious, only begotten Son, Jesus. Thank You Jesus, for leading us to the Father and showing us the Father. Thank You Holy Spirit for all the miraculous and marvellous works You do for us and in us. May the Holy Word of the Lord forever be honoured. May His Hallowed Name be forever glorified.  

As we traverse this final week before Holy Week, we are being led to face a grim reality which many people, believers as well, dismiss. The whole question of whether there is a hell or not has been debated from time immemorial. Nevertheless, for those of us who believe in the Kingdom of Heaven, the Kingdom of God, then we also believe in the kingdom of the evil one, the kingdom of hell.

We shall be shown facts about the kingdom of hell as spoken by Jesus. The one single objective is to face truth squarely in the face and seek help, not to be caught in the snares of hell.