For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?
Those of us with a few gray hairs will remember the famous cartoon “Mighty Mouse”. It was probably my favorite back in the day. If you’re like me, the little jingle is still stored away in your brain’s attic: “Here he comes to save the day! You know that Mighty Mouse is on his way!”
God is not Mighty Mouse. Yes, He surely has come to save the day, but in a way far different than any of us could have imagined. Mighty Mouse would have swooped down from the sky and with one big punch knocked out the dastardly duo of sin and death. But the Bible is not a comic book, life is certainly not a cartoon, and sin and death are all too real enemies.
When God “swooped down”, so to speak, in the person of his son, Jesus Christ, he conquered death by dying. He conquered sin by becoming sin—for us. And He did it so that we who believe could be “more than conquerers through him who loved us”.
