Thursday, 29 October 2015

Bruise in Me the Serpent's Head

The everlasting Hymn on praising the Lord in His incarnation by Charles Wesley with George Whitefield has been my prayer these days, as I have been experiencing the subjectivity and reality of God's promise on the "seed of the woman."
Stanza 4 (https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/84)
Come, Desire of nations, come!  Fix in us Thy humble home:Rise, the woman’s conqu’ring seed,  Bruise in us the serpent’s head;Adam’s likeness now efface,
  Stamp Thine image in its place:
Final Adam from above,
  Reinstate us in Thy love.

And I will put enmity / Between you and the woman / And between your seed and her seed; / He will bruise you on the head, / But you will bruise him on the heel. Genesis 3:15 

Though man fell and God in Christ Jesus had accomplished the work of redemption at the cross, still there is a need to subjectively execute what the Lord had already accomplished. He, as the seed of the woman, crushed the head of the serpent at the cross of Calvary. Now, we, the many believers of the Lord Jesus Christ and the children of God as the corporate seed of the woman are also in reality and practicality executing the crushing of the serpent's head; first of all in us, and without us. 

These days I very much sense the serpentine nature very active in the flesh, so subtle and so active. Sometimes disheartening, but never discouraged. As long as I am in flesh and blood, I have to face this serpent. The Lord, the Overcomer, who had already crushed the serpent's head is now in my spirit as the Spirit. I just need to exercise my spirit and be one spirit with the Lord Spirit. In his subtle activity I might have slipped now and then, but I am not discouraged, for he is the defeated foe. For a temporary moment he may seem to win the world, but in reality he is the loser.

Sensing this deep need within me, my cry and groaning and prayer to the Lord has been, "bruise in me the serpent's head!" I may be down and out, but I will rise again with a prayer,"bruise in me the serpent's head!" Come what may, my prayer in spiritual battle will be, "bruise in me the serpent's head!"

Lord, "bruise in me the serpent's head!"

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