by Like President Trump, we too are marked for assassination. Likewise, a hole in our security allows the assassin to perch close and unguard in our lives. Before we know it and often caught off guard, the assassin’s “fiery darts” draw blood as they whizz past our ears. Dumb-luck is not a part of the equation, but divine-intervention protects us as believers if we have “put on the whole armour of God” (Ephesians 6:10-20). Guarding successfully against the assassin’s perch, we are to “walk circumspectly” (Ephesians 5:15-16). Circumspectly means to conform to a strict standard.
Though the Secret Service religiously practices and prepares for an assassin’s bullet, it only takes one slip in security protocol for an assassination to succeed. With President Trump, someone did not conform to their strict standard, allowing the assassin to perch close and unguard. Caught off guard, the assassin’s bullets whizzed literally past his ears, drawing blood but his life was spared.
Our assassin, “the accuser of the brethren,” will be taken out by God in due time (Revelation 12:20). Until then, we are marked for assassination and must be on guard every day in our Christian walk, because our assassin “cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy” (John 10:10). Until then, we have divine-intervention that we can never be eternally taken out by an assassin’s bullet.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and my Father are one.
(John 10:27-30)
