Kept From Evil - All We Need.

Jesus prayed- Joh 17:15  I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

We need to be kept from evil. Did you read that? Jesus asked the Father to keep us from the evil in this world. 

All we need truly will be supplied by the Father. I not talking about things we call our needs, but all we truly need. Our true need is to belong to God, to have Christ in us our hope, to be blessed with the holy Comforter. Our true need is God because God alone offers us eternity, and eternity with God should be our true need beyond any need we think we have here and now.

To be kept from evil by God is to insure our eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Please, Father keep me from evil through Your power!

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The closing verses of the eleventh chapter set forth the infinite, unsearchable power and wisdom of God. Nobody can add anything to him. No one can put God under obligations to him. No one can give him something for which he should receive something in return. "For of him, and through him, and to him are all things." "He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things." "In him we live, and move, and have our being."  Acts 17:25, 28.

Act 17:25  Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

Act 17:28  For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring

This being so, it is but reasonable that all should yield their bodies to him, for him to control. He alone has the wisdom and the power to do it properly.

The word "reasonable" is, literally, "logical." The logical result of acknowledging God's power and wisdom and love, is to submit to him. He who does not yield to God, virtually denies his existence.

Exhorting and Comforting. 

It is interesting to know that the Greek word rendered "beseech" is from the same root as "the Comforter," applied to the Holy Spirit. 

It is the word used in Matthew 5:4, "Blessed are they that mourn; for they shall be comforted." It occurs also in 1 Thessalonians 4:18, "Comfort one another with these words."

The following passage contains the word several times, as indicated: "Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ." 2 Cor. 1:3-5. 

 The fact that the Greek word for "exhort," or "beseech," is identical with that for "comfort," may give a new force to the exhortations of the Spirit of God.

There is comfort in the thought that God is all-powerful. Therefore there is comfort in all his exhortations and commandments, since he does not expect us to act in our own strength, but in his. When he utters a command, it is but the statement of what he will do in and for us, if we yield to his power.1 When he reproves, he is simply showing to us our need, which he can abundantly supply. The Spirit convicts of sin, but is always the Comforter.

(Excerpt Ro. 11 E.J. Waggoner)