5. Through thee will we push down our enemies. The fight was very close, bows were of no avail, and swords failed to
be of service. Jacob’s God was renewing in the descendants of Jacob their
father’s wrestling. And how fared it with faith then? Could she stand foot to
foot with her foe and hold her own? Indeed, she came victorious from the
encounter, for she is great at a close push, the Lord being her helper. Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. The Lord’s name
served instead of weapons, and enabled those who used it to leap on their foes
and crush them with jubilant valor. In union and communion with God, saints
work wonder; if God be for us, who can be against us? Mark well that all the
conquests of these believers are said to be through thy name; going to
war at our own charges, we fail most ignominiously. Let us not, however, fall
into the equally dangerous sin of distrust, for the Lord can make the weakest
of us equal to any emergency. Though today we are timid and defenseless, he can
by his power make us strong, until those who rose up against us are so crushed
and battered as never to rise again.
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