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Tuesday... That is a different slant.


Psalm 41:11 (NIV), "I know that you are pleased with me, for my enemy does not triumph over me."

Tuesday... That is a different slant.

I love the honesty of David. He writes in Psalm 41:11 (NIV), "I know that you are pleased with me, for my enemy does not triumph over me."


Now it is important for us to see there will be enemies in our life. There will be people who will strive to bring us down because of our belief and also just because of who we are. We may have a wrong thought that because we serve a God who is all powerful that we will have no problems, no enemies. That if God loves us then he will take care of all the bad around us and that is how he shows he is pleased with us.

Yes, David gives us a different slant. Again he says, "I know that you are pleased with me, for my enemy does not triumph over me." And that means there is someone out there who is striving to bring us down. And that is true during this time in which we are living.

Now, there is one that we want to be popular with. "I know that you are pleased with me, for my enemy does not triumph over me." By the way, Jesus, God's Son was killed. From a human standpoint that sounds like his enemies definitely triumphed over him. But they didn't from God's view.

Over in Jeremiah 11:18-19 he writes, "Then the LORD told me about the plots my enemies were making against me. I was like a lamb being led to the slaughter. I had no idea that they were planning to kill me! 'Let's destroy this man and all his words,' they said. 'Let's cut him down, so his name will be forgotten forever.'" But he held steady with the message that God had for him to give. I am reading the book of Jeremiah right now and it is a very tough message. But it pleased God.

Now the New International Reader's Version translates verse 11 this way, "Then I will know that you are pleased with me, because my enemies haven't won the battle over me." Yes there will be battles but God will win.

Remember, Jesus was killed but he was resurrected in three days. Yes, Paul was in battle after battle but he didn't run away. He wrote a big portion of the New Testament and he was a great witness as a prisoner in Rome.

"Then I will know that you are pleased with me, because my enemies haven't won the battle over me." And that is what we want, isn't it? We want the LORD to be pleased with us. Yes, thank you God for being pleased with me no matter what I am going through.

And Psalm 41:13 (NLT) says, "Praise the LORD, the God of Israel, who lives from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and amen!" Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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