“You will trample upon lions and cobras; you will crush fierce lions and serpents under your feet!”
This verse is packed with more meaning than might first meet the eye. Sure, we’d all like to be invincible and fend off lions and tigers and bears (you know…). But God prophesied that we would crush serpents under our feet since the moment Adam and Eve fell.
In Genesis 3, there is an image of a serpent’s head and a person’s heel as God doles out the punishment for Satan in verse 15. It is the moment in which God reveals that Satan will not win the ultimate victory. “He will strike your head and you will strike his heel.” I don’t know about you, but it seems pretty clear that the foot will win in a battle involving a head getting stepped on.
Here’s your freedom for today: God has always planned Satan’s defeat. Jesus will crush Satan’s head under his foot. He did on the cross and he will stomp the final stomp when he fully rescues the world once and for all. Sometimes we feel like we are the ones that need to crush Satan, but remember that you are one of the ones in need of saving. From the moment Satan started meddling with humans, God has had a plan to rescue you and me. This kingdom of destruction and death will come to an end.