The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the upright, but ruin to the workers of iniquity.
A stronghold is a well-fortified place, a fortress.
When someone lives their everyday life according to the way of the Lord that He has shown us in His Word, then it is like we are surrounded by strong walls of protection.
God has told us in Isaiah that no weapon that is formed to harm us will succeed. Every time someone falsely accuses us, we will refute their allegations and it will turn around to be against them:
Isaiah 54:17: No weapon that is formed against you will prosper; and every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication is from Me, declares the Lord.God will see to it that His servant who has done no wrong will be able to refute any accusation without having to defend himself.
It's called "poetic justice," and you can see one way it worked out in the book of Esther, to Haman.
So the Way of the Lord that is a stronghold to the upright will be the ruin of those who are trying to harm God's people. The Lord will turn it around, and it is a wondrus thing to behold how God uses our "free" choices to further His purposes.
O my Father, You really are amazing! Your ways are astounding! Your intimate knowledge and Your intricate power to do the fine, meticulous things, as well as the huge, monumental things, just blows my mind!
You weave together all the individual strands of our lives into the great pattern of history. When we open our eyes we can see how all the world happenings up to today accurately describe what You told Your prophets to write down so long ago.
And Your Son Jesus, Your Christ for us, told us what to look for at the end of this Age, and we have seen these signs in the Earth and the World since He ascended. Now we see all the signs, all the events, all the geological and political and spiritual signs that are extant today: Jesus is returning soon.
Father, I fully expect You to continue to do everything You said You would do. So I am watching to see Your servants vindicated and the workers of iniquity suffer the consequences they wished upon Your people. I'm watching to see all that You told us work out on this Earth, in our World, in the Nations, and in the events of our lives.
Thank You, Father, for being our stronghold in this time of trouble and peril. You are so good to me, and to the others who belong in Your Family.
My Lord God Almighty, I pray for all those who will turn to You in the perilous times that are coming and are even now upon us in some ways and in some places. Continue to vindicate the righteous; and pound on the workers of iniquity, that they may learn and confess the error of their ways.
Continue to send out Your workers into the fields already so white to harvest. Continue to call out and draw to Yourself those who You have chosen, who have desired to know the Truth, that they will turn to You Who are Truth. Let them come to You into Your stronghold.
And every eye will see, every knee will bow, every tongue confess that Jesus of Nazareth is Lord God Almighty, King over all kings and Lord over all lords.
And You will receive all the credit, all the glory, all the honor for everything You are and do and accomplish and complete.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
