No Weapon Formed Against You

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
Isaiah 54:17


We all know this verse and most of us quote it frequently but usually we only quote the first part of the verse. What about the rest of it? This happens to be my brother’s favorite verse and one morning we were sitting at the table, having a conversation and he began to quote this verse but only the first part of it, and I quoted the rest and he said “there’s more to that verse?” He had not committed to memory the entire verse because he thought that was all of it. Sometimes we focus on part of a verse and not the whole verse because we see the promise in that part but the promise is actually in the whole verse. For example James 4:17, many focus on the part that says resist the devil and he will flee from you. But the first part says submit yourselves therefore to God, and then you read the promise. For this verse in particular, you can not resist the devil if you don’t first submit yourself to God. In Isaiah 54:17 the promise is no weapon formed against you shall prosper AND every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. THIS is the heritage of the SERVANTS OF THE LORD, and their righteousness is of me, says the LORD. What is the promise? The promise is no weapon formed against you shall proper and every tongue that rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. So what’s the catch? You have to be a servant of the Lord! The heritage is for the servants of the Lord and their righteousness is of me. In other words He makes His servants righteous. It is a wonderful promise to know that when we serve the Lord, nothing that the devil tries to do to us will prosper! When he uses people to speak against us, to tear us down, to judge us wrongfully and criticize us, we shall condemn them! Why?? Because it is not us that they are speaking against but the Lord whom we serve, when they come against us with hostility and hatred for what we stand for, it is not us they come against but the Lord we serve. He fights the battle for us and with us. See, the devil hates the image of Christ in us. He hates us because we have something that he can never get back and that is a relationship with God the Father through His Son Jesus Christ. He knows that if Christ is in us and we are faithful, that nothing he throws at us can keep us down, but he won’t give up which is why we have to remain alert. Praise God for His mighty power, because He is like a powerful giant in front of us and at our side in battle. If you look at the last part of the verse, it says their righteousness is of me. We are not righteous by our own right but He makes us righteous through Him that saved us! He puts His righteousness on us and calls us His, this is the heritage of those who serve the Lord! Praise God!! Let us remember that no matter what comes against us that no weapon formed against us shall prosper and those that speak against us are not fighting us but are fighting God and we shall condemn them because woe to him that tries to harm any one of God’s little ones! His righteousness is our heritage. God is awesome!!