Morning Devotions

Bible Reading:

Mic_2:13

In ancient warfare, indeed in the King's era (1611), castles and cities were conquered by the use of "breakers" or battering rams. The commander of the ram sometimes was called a "breaker." In this case, the context seems to clearly show Jesus Christ as a "breaker" securing the victory over a prison of sorts, setting the captives free.

What is holding the captives? Not simply a city, for this seems very much to be poetical language, symbolic of something else. The great foe of man, according to the rest of Scripture, is sin and death. Both are conquered in Christ and by Christ. Christ, as Spurgeon aptly puts it, "has conquered every foe that obstructed the way." Any foe you face, Christ before you has opened the way. The enemy is defeated, his weapons rendered harmless and unable to kill you.

"All you have to do is divide the spoil." The battlefield is littered with the spoils of the enemy who is powerless to prevent your victory. "The gates of hell shall not prevail against [the church]." The breaker has opened the way, and the pickings are given to us.

What is the spoil?

• Peace that passes all understanding
• Power over sin
• Confidence in Christ
• Souls saved by faith
• Passage through death to life eternal

Such spoils cannot be had outside of Christ, and cannot be lost when one is in Christ. Blessed is he who follows the breaker through the walls of sin and death into Heaven! Forsake your sins which once bound you - for the shackles are loosed. Take heart over your fears - for the work of Christ has secured you. Step out and follow Him who leads victoriously and perfectly - never losing even a single soldier (you will not be the first). And smile - you are more than a conqueror through Christ, your Lord.

Bro. Greg