“The prince of this world comes, but he has nothing on me ”

More Ed opinion: The world offers a multitude of methods to deal with our thinking.  Philosophies, religions and physical mixtures are put forth to take care of or help relieve or enhance our felt needs. Some seem to work for some people for a time but looking at humanity in a general sense all these coping methods are abject, sensational  failures.

For me, hallelujah, God’s salvation through grace is the only way with supernatural power that lasts! It has some thing, the divine influence of God on the individual’s behalf, that nothing else has.  By God’s decree and for his “names sake “, his reputation in other words, he is committed and perfectly able to bring real and eternal freedom and rest and joy and love to the lives of each of those who are his.  He lifts his children up from the miry clay of our past, cleans us, and hides us in Christ. We continue in this world but are no longer of it.