Isaiah 54:15-17 - Under attack?

"If anyone does attack ..." All this does not mean that no one will ever attack us, but it does mean that God will not attack us.

Now we need to understand the difference between attack and discipline. As it says in Hebrews 12, God disciplines those whom He loves. God will work in our lives to teach and train us, sometimes this will be difficult, but it is all done for our good and will build us up. But He will never attack us.

We need to understand this, for when we are attacked a very natural reaction is to ask "what have I done wrong, has God got it in for me?" No He hasn't.

No weapon fashioned against us will succeed. There are two approaches to seeking peace. One is to hope that nothing will ever go wrong, no one will ever attack us. This is futile and means living in fairytale land. The other is to know that whatever does happen, it will not succeed in destroying us. This is Biblical.

Notice that it says "you will refute", ie we will refute every accusing tongue. In Christ we become strong. Paul says several times in his letters "be strong in the Lord". We need to learn to live in the authority that we have in Christ.

This is our heritage in the Lord. We have been born again, born to a new life, born to a new family. We need to learn to live that in the fullness of that new life.