Your cry for freedom from fear and for the keeping of your household has been heard, and it is good that you turn to the blood of Jesus for refuge. That great fear which settles like a vampire upon the soul, that dread of going down to the Pit, is known to the Lord, and it is He alone who can give deliverance. For it is written, Then He is gracious unto him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the Pit, I have found a ransom. Nobody would have thought of that way of deliverance from the pit of hell through a ransom if God had not thought of it, and He has not only invented the way but He has found the ransom in His own dear Son. This is the gift of Divine Love.
Take comfort also that deliverance from the power of darkness is as much the work of God as deliverance from the guilt of sin. He has delivered us from the fascinating power of sin, from the power of darkness, and we must look to our heavenly Father altogether and alone for this sanctification and keeping. If sin is taken away by that ransom, why need we fear. Did He give His own dear Son to put away our sin, and will He not give you daily bread and daily peace. All your trials and all the assaults of the evil one lie within the fence of omnipotent overruling. Nothing comes apart from Divine permission, and that which comes bears the blessed aspect of chastening from a Father's hand, not that He has erased your name from His heart or yielded you to the enemy's power.
Therefore labor to get rid of fear, for fear is weakening and fear dishonors God. Doubt the Eternal, distrust the Omnipotent. The Lord Himself says, Fear not, I am with thee. Fear not, thou worm Jacob, I will help thee, saith the Lord. And again from His own lips, Fear not, I am the First and the Last, I am He that lives and was dead, and behold I am alive forevermore. When you shrink back, He does not wonder at your frailty but looks with sorrow upon such fear, for that hand which was wounded for you will not wound you, but cures by its own wound.
We pray now for you, for your mother, for your three children, and for your household including your pets, that the Lord would fulfill His word over you, Deliver him from going down to the Pit. May He snap the bands of fear, drag off every evil habit and oppression, and set you free indeed, for there is no true liberty but that of which Christ makes you free. May He keep you in perfect peace, free from that fake and tormenting fear, and cause you to live not in dread but to live and declare the works of the Lord. May the blood of Jesus, that found ransom, be your confidence day and night, and may you know that you are hidden with Christ and have nothing to fear, for all your interests are secure in Him. May the Lord grant you quiet rest, soundness of mind and body, and may your home be kept under His gracious overruling, that you may say with the Psalmist, I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord. Amen.
