Deliver us

 

Deliver Us From Evil

We certainly need protection and deliverance from evil. Evil is everywhere whispering at us, suggesting alternative paths and views or tormenting us, at our indecision or right choices, even.

You can see, feel, taste evil. It is a tangible energy, if you develop awareness and discernment. It is so much more than sin, which we perceive to be an absence of love, an inaction for love, simply healed by correcting your path.

We desperately need God’s help to avoid the temptation to follow a false voice or path, that might set us, unfortunately, toward evil and continuing wrong choice, which leads further away from love toward deliberate intent. We need the gifts of the Spirit to help us in our struggles against evil. And the power of prayer!

Discernment, Knowledge, Truth, will all aid us. But remember that the Spirit had not yet been sent when Jesus prayed these words, so it may also be seen as a prayer for fulfillment of His Passion, so that the Spirit would indeed come to be with us, so that we would have gifts from God to help us in our fight against evil, so that we would all ultimately find God’s protection and be delivered.

For we are so much smaller and weaker than Jesus was. And need all the spiritual help we can use.

Jesus chose, very deliberately and consciously, to go through his Passion, such that He would vanquish evil through the power of Love and Mercy and lift us all into life, everlasting, with Him.

These words are a prayer that we may all remain strong and true to God, defying all evil, relying totally on the Father, who is absolute Love, to protect us, as Jesus Himself, who had to go through torture and death, literally to hell and back again, before Mercy could be freed, life restored and the Spirit set free, as a messenger into the world, for all time.

Let us remember that when Jesus shared this prayer, he must have been aware of His own difficult path ahead, as well as the struggles we all face on our own paths.  He would need to be able to stay strong and true to the Will of the Father, no matter what assailed Him and that Will is, most assuredly and ultimately, always Love and Mercy. What greater gift can we ask for in prayer and what greater gift can He give us than this prayer. For every time someone prayed that prayer, before His death, they were in effect praying for the success of His Mission of Mercy to save humanity and overcome evil for all time on the Cross. And every prayer prayed after His death reaffirms His success and confirms that evil can and will be overcome.

For mercy, above all, is a gift of pure love that overcomes all evil.

Where Mercy is, no evil can exist.

This is the message of the cross and the affirmation of this prayer. This is our prayer of protection.