Being Established and Anchored in the Lord

UV 3541/10000 Being Established and Anchored in the Lord. The Lord is faithful, who shall establish you, and keep you from all evil. 2 Thessalonians 3 v 3 The key words in this uni-verse are “The Lord is faithful.” By implication, we are not faithful. We have faith but it swings up and down like a pendulum, depending on what happens to us or around us- our circumstances. But, the Lord promises to establish us on the rock foundation of the Rock of Ages – Jesus. He establishes us even as the enemy tries to destabilise us with evil planned against us. The Lord leads us out of evil and keeps us from ALL evil. The emphasis is on ALL evil. The Lord is able to perceive ahead of time any evil that is afoot and He proactively and actively delivers us from it. Jesus is our “ good root”, our strong foundation. The enemy though strong or powerful cannot overcome the strength of our faith, the foundation or root of our lives. We grow downward in our roots into Christ and upward in our fruit. The only way the enemy can get us down if we willfully like Judas choose to betray Jesus, to follow His suggestion. Jesus gave us two clear commandments to love God selflessly and to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. The enemy does not give commandments for He does not have the authority. He neither created us nor sustains us. Hence, He operates through suggestions. The suggestions might often come from our own thoughts or our own voice. The Covid pandemic has destabilised the world. We are told to keep our distance from our neighbours. But, we can increase our proximity or our intimacy with the Lord. His word is the best prophylactic along with prayer against all evil. We can depend only on the Lord for our sustenance and protection. He both guards and guides us on our paths. Hence, we need not fear any evil. We draw our sense of security from our faith in the Lord and His word. The more time we are investing in the Word and in prayer, the more we are anchored in Him, the more secure and established we are in Him.