“So no weapon that is used against you will defeat you. You will show that those who speak against you are wrong. These are the good things my servants receive. Their victory comes from me,” says the Lord.
Isaiah 54:17 (NCV)
No weapon formed against you will prosper.
I woke up this morning with this thought on my mind and a Wheatful Wednesday devotion to write.
As I sat with the Lord, praising Him, seeking Him, and listening, an overwhelming sense of spiritual authority and strength came over me. It felt like I had been suited up for battle.
When I opened my Bible to Isaiah 54:17, the page was filled with notes of truth. A voice message from a friend was waiting on my phone, echoing this same word. She sent it without knowing what God had shown me that morning. The peace that settled in my heart could only have come from Him, and I knew this is where we were going to go deep today.
The prophet Isaiah first spoke this promise as a word of restoration and defense, and as a reminder that God is a God of justice, after a season of severe hardship and captivity.
This verse does not promise that trials, opposition, and injustice will never touch us. Scripture tells us the opposite, that trials will come (John 16:33). What it does promise is that any harm our enemy, Satan, builds against us will fail to accomplish the destruction it was meant for. God pursues His people and rescues them in heart and in salvation.
False accusations against you will not stand.
Hardship will not have the final word.
Brokenness may be present in your life, but God’s love is always abundant in your heart.
Some translations describe the “good things” in our NCV passage as a “divine heritage.” Salvation and the companionship of the Holy Spirit in our trials are not earned by human strength. They are an inheritance given directly by God to His servants.
When we were walking the road of waiting for our children through an infertility diagnosis and loss, a friend shared a dream with us. God had asked her to remind me that “the greater the struggle, the higher the calling.” I’ve held those words for the last five years, and I’ve found one thing to be true: God doesn’t waste anything. He doesn’t will or wish hardship on us, but the brokenness of our world delivers it anyway. What should always point us back to our good God is seeing harm turned into something beautiful, something that could not have existed with the same magnitude if we hadn’t walked through the struggle with the Lord beside us.
Hardship produces awareness. When we wrestle with the Lord in hard seasons, we often see His hand more clearly. And when we know what heartbreak feels like, we recognize fulfillment when it arrives and give credit where credit is due. Glory to God.
So today, if you’re sitting in a circumstance that feels “not good,” as my 3-year-old would put it, remember this: God’s goodness is not dependent on our circumstances being good. Because God is faithful, we can obey Him even when we cannot yet see the harvest.
Where do you need to trust Him with a harvest you can’t see yet?
Lord, thank You that no weapon formed against us will prosper, and that our victory comes from You. Meet us in the hard places and show us Your hand at work. Help us obey You while we wait for the harvest. Amen.
Britt Goff | Wheatful Wednesday
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