Do you know that there is a battle for your soul? Satan has set his sights on devouring our souls, like a roaring lion. 1 Peter 5:8 tells us “Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walking around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may desire.”
David speaks repeatedly on the battle for his soul that was being waged. When we look at what David wrote in Psalm 143:3 maybe you can recognize where Satan has been after you. “For the enemy has pursued my soul, he has crushed my life to the ground, he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.”
Satan is pursuing every one of our souls, he wants to crush our spirits, steal our lives, and leave us in a dark place, absent of hope and life. Satan’s contented purpose is to deceive us and cause us to feel crushed and trapped in a dark place emotionally. His intentions are to make us feel this way.
God is our rescuer of our souls.
David writes in Psalm 143:8 “Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way that I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.”
God’s steadfast love is our only path to restoring our souls and refreshing our spirits to hope and health. When we are in the pit of darkness, we can look up and reach out to the light of God’s grace. When our soul is dry and barren like a parched land, we can stretch out our hands to God and ask Him to quench of thirsty souls. “I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land” -Psalm 143:6
God has build His name, reputation and glory on fulfilling His promises according to His righteousness. “For your names sake, O Lord, preserve my life! In your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble” -Psalm 143:11
This means we can count on God to come through when we find ourselves in big trouble. No matter what the scoreboard tells us, the game called life is never over if we are on God’s team, and we will win in the end.
Psalm 143:12 goes on to say, “And in your steadfast love you will cut off my enemies, and you will destroy all the adversaries of my soul, for I am your servant.”
Our enemy has been defeated. Jesus crushed the head of the snake through His resurrection. Jesus is coming back and when He does. He will destroy all our adversaries of our souls. Until that time, we trust God and serve Him. Knowing He keeps His promises. As we serve Him daily, He will guard, heal, restore, and refresh our souls out of the abundance of His steadfast love.
Allow God to conquer your soul and rule on the throne of your heart, Jesus is a worthy and mighty King.
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