Day 27 with Moses: We should pay no attention to the boasting, mocking, and threatening of the enemy

“The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, My hand shall destroy them.’ You blew with Your wind, The sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty waters.”

‭‭Exodus‬ ‭15:9-10‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Before I was born there was a time when my father was working as a young evangelist, going from place to place, preaching the word of the Lord and praying for people. On one occasion he was trying to make it from one place to another by driving all night. His exhaustion got the better of him and he nodded off while driving a car in which was also my mother and my sister (who was just a baby). My father woke to find himself having run head on into the abutment of a bridge. My sister had been thrown against the windshield and was laying on the hood of the car. My mother was unconscious, having taken the blow of the impact with her mouth against the dashboard. As my father was trying to gather his strength he audibly heard the devil laughing and saying, “Look at you. You’ve prayed for all these people and now you have no one to pray for you.” The rest of that story is that the local paper reported the accident as having killed three people. But God had miraculously brought a man by on that dark, lonely road in West Virginia, who had gotten help for them. By the grace of God they all lived to tell the story. And—by the way—over the next several months they heard from people who had been awakened in the middle of the night to pray for them.

I have never heard the voice of the enemy audibly, but I have heard, in my spirit, all kinds of threats from him; and I imagine you have as well.

Whether the enemy speaks directly into your spirit or uses the mouth of others to mock, threaten, or boast against you, you know how it feels to be in a tight spot made worse by the trash talk of the enemy.

“My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, “Where is your God?”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭42:3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

The Psalmist here is expressing the pain of the mocking of people who are against you. Indeed, our Lord was subjected to the scorn of His enemies as He hung as a bloody mass on that rugged cross:

“And those who passed by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads and saying, “You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross.” Likewise the chief priests also, mocking with the scribes and elders, said, “He saved others; Himself He cannot save. If He is the King of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe Him. He trusted in God; let Him deliver Him now if He will have Him; for He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ” Even the robbers who were crucified with Him reviled Him with the same thing.”

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭27:39-44‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Now we know how that story ended: Jesus rose in power and victory, the victory that has made all the difference for us.

But—the fact is—we hate hearing our enemy’s taunting. Truth be told, we want the Lord to shut them up. Now, that might not happen on our time schedule; but make no mistake, He will shut every mouth that has risen up in judgment, ridicule, mocking, threatenings, and so on against His people.

Today we find Moses praising the Lord for having brought an end to those who had boasted against the children of God. As a matter of fact, the very thing they were threatening to do to the Israelites, happened to them.

Remember this: the word of God is true; and His ability to help you, is in no way diminished by the big mouth of an enemy.

For today let us discover what Moses discovered:

We should pay no attention to the boasting, mocking, and threatening of the enemy.

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