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<h2 class="devotional-title"><a href="http://www.brooklyntabernacle.org/devotional/20170806/do-not-gloat-my-enemy">Do Not Gloat, My Enemy!</a></h2><div class="devotional-date">Sunday, August 6, 2017</div><div class="devotional-body"><p><br>
</p><p>“<b>Do not gloat</b> over me, my enemy! Though I <b>have fallen</b>, I <b>will rise</b>.
Though I <b>sit</b> in darkness, the Lord<b> will be</b> my light.” <br></p><p>(Micah 7:8 <em>NIV</em>)
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</p><p>This <b>may express</b> the feeling of a man or woman /<font color="#FF0000">downtrodden</font> and
<font color="#FF0000">oppressed.</font> Our enem<b>y may put out </b>our light /for a season, <br></p><p>but there <b>is </b>
sure hope for us in the Lord. And if we <b>are trusting in</b> him, and <b>holding
fast </b>our integrity, our season of downcasting and darkness <b>will soon be</b>
over. The insults of the foe <b>are </b>only for a moment… for we <b>shall
overcome</b> him before long. We <b>shall rise </b>from our fall, for our God <b>has
not fallen</b>, and he <b>will lift</b> us up. We <b>shall not abide</b> in darkness,
although for the moment we <b>sit</b> in it; for our Lord<b> is</b> the fountain of
light, and he<b> will soon bring </b>us a joyful day.
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</p><p>-Charles Spurgeon (excerpted and adapted from the <em>Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith: Daily Readings</em>)
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</p><p>If you <b>are being assaulted</b> by the enemy of your soul today,<b> remember </b>
that “in all these things we<b> are </b>more than conquerors through him who
loved us!” (Romans 8:37)
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</p><p>Read <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Micah+7%3A8-20+&version=NIV">Micah 7:8-20</a>.
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