Peace week1

 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.   Romans 12.20

God’s grace affords those who long to serve Him the power to triumph in the realm of spiritual struggle. Satan is the author of all such struggle, so Paul makes it clear that God is going to crush Satan under the heel of those who rely on the strength of God for their hope.

Once Satan is defeated, our turmoil is gone, and we can fulfil God’s plans for our lives. Nothing is more beautiful than to exalt God and achieve in Christ an inner serenity free of all turbulence. After Jesus was victorious over Satan in the wilderness, angels came to Jesus and ministered to Him. After the reign of Satan is over in our own lives, peace will be born, and we will serve God without distraction. 

Alienation is always the by-product of evil. Just as God draws us to Himself. Satan drives a wedges into that holy relationship. The devil actively works at trying to limit the number of God’s friends. 

The God of peace will crush Satan under His feet. What a great promise that is! When we were lost in sin, Satan kept us in turmoil. He agitated our troubled minds with hatred, self-will and ambition. He left us weeping in despair, helpless before our hopelessness. The evil one is the author of our identity crisis, the breaker of our hope. He always comes shod in the muddy boots that stomp our desire for clean morality into unwholesome pleasures.

But when Jesus reigns, our old enemy is crushed. We are free to live and serve God in peace.