As I write this, today’s verse-of-the-day on the YouVersion Bible app is Isaiah 54:17. What an appropriately timed reminder in these days that we live that weapons aimed our way are ineffective and powerless. Our Godly inheritance is vindication from judgmental attacks and ridiculing tongues. We live on the side of righteousness and holiness in […]
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Martians in H. G. Well’s classic science fiction novel – since their own planet’s resources were dwindling – invaded Earth seeking to conquer mankind. Killing multitudes with their heat-rays and poisonous “black smoke”, these aliens with their superior technology destroyed human weapons and demolished worldly structures. Ultimately, however, they were defeated by invisible human pathogens
We say, “He nailed it!” when someone does something perfectly. When our Lord came to Earth as fully man yet fully God in the person of Jesus, he “nailed” perfectly the atonement for our sins and gave us unblemished salvation, restoring us to right-standing before God in a way impossible for the Law to accomplish.
