the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Grace for Today
Psalms 33:1
‘Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous’
Read Revelation 21:1-27
You may well rejoice in the Lord because Satan, your soul’s great enemy, is defeated. That fiend of hell who roars against your soul is a defeated foe. All he can do is roar. Christ broke the arm of his power at the cross. He has, once and for all, cast the accuser down. Satan has no power against your soul. He is bound by the chain of Christ’s power. When our Lord died, he said, ‘Now shall the prince of this world be cast out’ (John 12:31). ‘And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly’ (Romans 16:20).
You can rejoice in the midst of your many temptations because your indwelling sin, the old man of the flesh, is doomed. So long as we are here upon this earth, we shall have to put up with this old carnal nature. The lusts of the flesh will be with us so long as we live in this flesh. But that old man is doomed.
You may well rejoice because your God rules this world. That one who loved me and gave himself for me holds the reins of universal dominion. Everything in this world is ruled by the hand that was nailed to the tree for me. Surely, he will do me good. He will see to it that ‘all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose’ (Romans 8:28).
Rejoice! You live upon a bank which can never be broken. The bank of heaven, the treasury of infinite grace is open to you. ‘Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need’ (Hebrews 4:16).
Yes, you can rejoice, even in the midst of your trials, because you are not alone. The eye of the Lord is upon you. The Comforter is within you. Beneath you are the everlasting arms of divine grace and strength. And the Lord God himself is with you. ‘The Lord is at hand’ (Philippians 4:5). He promises, ‘I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee’ (Hebrews 13:5).
If you are a believer, if you are in Christ, you may well rejoice because all your troubles will soon be over. We shall soon leave this world of sorrow and enter into that glory land, where ‘God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes’ (Revelation 21:4).
