You are the people of God, and as Christians you bear the name of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord God is jealous for His name, and so we know from His Word that He will deliver His people from the troubles that confront them. He does not always deliver us on the timetable we would have preferred, but God always fulfills His word. Not one of His promises is ever broken.
We have been grateful as a church to see how many plots and schemes from our adversaries have been thwarted by the good pleasure of God. In faith, we look forward to many more instances of this. But in this faith, keep in mind that God loves to test and purify His people through a form of brinksmanship.
Abraham is provided with the substitutionary ram at the very moment his hand is raised with the knife in it. The people of Israel were delivered with Pharaoh’s army right behind them, and the waters of the Red Sea lapping at their feet. Hezekiah laid out his petition before the Lord when his city was surrounded by the enemy.
God does not need human history. He was just fine before heaven and earth were created. He was filling up no deficiency in His decree to create. But we need history. We need to understand that we serve a God who overthrows His enemies (and ours), and He consistently does this just in the nick of time, and never just after the nick of time.
So should it trouble us to see Haman busy constructing a gallows? Should we be unsettled when our enemies taunt us that if a fox were to jump on our wall, it would certainly fall down? Should we be distressed to see men industriously digging a pit that the Word declares they will fall into? Not a bit of it—in the words of the great hymn, “with salvation’s walls surrounded, thou mayst smile at all thy foes.”
Worship is warfare, and by conducting worship rightly, in evangelical faith, we are performing a valuable work of iconoclasm. We worship the God who defies all the idols. It is not possible to worship in this way without provoking a counterattack, which is what has happened to us. But we are far enough into this to see the many ways in which God has fulfilled His Word, and preserved His people.
As one wise man put it, the God of the Bible is no buttercup. And the name of the wicked will rot.