Every night is a promise for the day to come. I pray before selecting the one that the Lord guides me to. My interpretation of these promises are not meant to be an explanation of their meaning but rather an expansion on how I believe they speak to my life or those around me. Here is one from the first days my friend, daily telephone and devotional partner, took up new residence, where a telephone line was at the minimum 5 weeks away

Day 9 (re-posted)

1 John 4:4 

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

Greater Is He That Is In You

 

God made the mountains, the valleys, the trees

Rivers and lakes, the ponds and the seas

Every fowl of the air flying low or high

Animals wild and those that draw nigh

The Lord made creatures, too small for us to see

Eyes can’t perceive them but they’re vital to our ecology

Really large and more complex organisms that dwarfs us all

 

I see a whale or an elephant then I feel really small

So for all this vastness and variety

 

He is greater than any other can be

Evil tries to invade us as we walk the earth

 

The spirits of Satan wish to inflate their sinful worth

Human kind who never let the Savior in

Are vulnerable to this evil and the world of sin

They are lured into a new vastness of dark gloom

 

It can attract with glitz, money and lust in its costume

Superficial pleasures and fleeting happiness

 

It’s easy to be taken in without God’s righteousness

Nothing defeats the darkness but the light

 

Your invitation to the Lord will yield His might

Overcoming the Evils of the world to free you from sin

Ultimately you’ll be saved because Greater is He That Is Within