Let\u2019s look again at Yahweh-Nissi: the Lord my banner.<\/i> It isn\u2019t easy to hand our battles over and let God fight for us. We feel like we\u2019re copping out or being irresponsible. Popular thinking says, \u2018Don\u2019t just sit there, do something!\u2019 We\u2019re like the drowning man who can\u2019t stop grasping at his rescuer. We imagine they need our help, and as a result we end up making their job almost impossible. The truth is\u2014we become their worst nightmare! But just because God fights for us doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re not involved. The hardest part about the order\u2014\u2018stand still and watch the deliverance of the Lord\u2019<\/i>\u2014is we mistake standing still for doing nothing, or being derelict in our duty. Fear says, \u2018Just do something!\u2019 Faith says, \u2018Stand in faith. Let God do it!\u2019 That\u2019s about as far from doing nothing as you can get. It\u2019s faith at its highest. <\/p>\n
So how come we need spiritual armour if we don\u2019t do the fighting? Good question! Paul said, \u2018Put on the full armour of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil\u2019s schemes.\u2019<\/i> (Ephesians\u00a06:11\u00a0NIV) Notice: you wear His<\/i> armour\u2014not yours. You\u2019re to stand<\/i>\u2014not fight. \u2018The weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh.\u2019<\/i> (2\u00a0Corinthians\u00a010:4\u00a0NASB) Human methods get in God\u2019s way; natural abilities are useless against spiritual forces. <\/p>\n
The grub of the dragonfly at the bottom of the pond may be a well-developed, vigorous grub. But once it becomes a dragonfly, the strengths of its grub-life won\u2019t help it to live an airborne life. Whereas we once trusted in our own human effort, now we trust only in Yahweh-Nissi.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Let\u2019s look again at Yahweh-Nissi: the Lord my banner. It isn\u2019t easy to hand our battles over and let God fight for us. We feel like we\u2019re copping out or being irresponsible. Popular thinking says, \u2018Don\u2019t just sit there, do something!\u2019 We\u2019re like the drowning man who can\u2019t stop grasping at his rescuer. We imagine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}