Forgetting What We Have

By Gobel Brockman

I recently had one of those "Read that Scripture a hundred times and never caught that" moments. I was reading in Exodus and came upon this passage:

"Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. And he said to his people, 'Behold the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us..." Exodus 1:8-9 (ESV)

I know that Israel's time in Egypt was a part of God's plan to show them deliverance, and show Egypt (and the world) His power. But what jumped out at me was the idea that the enemy acknowledged that God's people were 'too many and too mighty'. And that got me to thinking, "Hope many times do I allow a weaker enemy to defeat me?" The Bible tells us things like 'If God be for us, who can be against us?' and 'Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world' and yet we continually struggle with things like moodiness, anger, and self-pity, while knowing that the God and Creator of all dwells in us by the Holy Spirit, and we DO NOT have to succumb to their power.

Why? I believe one reason is we simply spend too much time listening to the enemy, rather than the One Who has already given us everything we need for life and godliness (II Peter 1:3). That's one reason it's so important that we continually feed our minds on the Word of God, and ask the Holy Spirit to help us tune a deaf ear to the lies of Satan. We have victory. We are more and mightier than the enemy because of Jesus Christ. May God teach us to live in that victory.