Stay Close to Jesus
Have you ever noticed that people who don't have a relationship with Jesus live in constant fear? Meanwhile, we live peacefully under the care and guardianship of heaven's angelic warriors, who keep us from being overtaken by the evil beings among us. Those without the cover of Jesus have more to fear than they can even imagine; their fear is justified. I can picture snarling demons seething to get their hands on us, but they are kept at a distance by the forces of Jesus. When people traverse this world without the cover of Jesus, they leave themselves without protection and subject themselves to evil. These evil beings will appear as beauty and light, yet they have sinister intentions. We have no idea what the war is like in a dimension we are not privy to, though we can sometimes feel it. It presents like awkwardness, hair standing on end, chills, unease, and maybe a sense of fright. That battle is not ours; we are privileged to be covered by the power of Jesus.
“Those that will not submit to Christ, nor be gathered under the shadow of his wings, shall be as a bird that wanders from her nest, that shall either be snatched up by the next bird of prey or shall wander endlessly in continual frights. Those that will not yield to the fear of God shall be made to yield to the fear of every thing else.” Matthew Henry
For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon. Isaiah 16:2
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