“He said: “Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah and Jerusalem! This is what the Lord says to you: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s.” 2 Chronicles 20:15
This is such a good verse for today, and really for every day. Have you got a problem? God can handle it…if you just give it to Him. I read a devotion recently that had a good story that reminds me of this verse. “Imagine you’re sitting on a plane that’s about to take off. As the plane goes down the runway, you start flapping your arms. As the speed picks up and the nose lifts in the air, you flap your arms faster and faster. Once in the air, the flight attendant approaches you and says, “What are you doing?” And you say, “Oh, I’m helping us get off the ground.” It’s all about ME…NOT!!!
At this stage in my life, I’m thinking that most people will always trust themselves and their resources, and so when they see a problem, they think, “I’ve got to figure this out, I can do this. It’s up to me!” When that type of thinking happens, you have assumed and taken over God’s role, and it wears you outl because you were never meant to carry it in the first place. It doesn’t matter how big or small your problem may be; God can handle it.
You’ve been trying to solve problems in your marriage, your body, the economy, your school, the world and you’re trying to solve them with your own power. You’re trying to fight the battle on your own, you’re getting clobbered and you’re getting tired.
When you finally just give up and come back to God and tell Him you’ve made a mess of it, you may think you’ve let Him down. But you haven’t let God down, because you were never holding him up in the first place. You don’t have God in your hands; He’s got you in His hands. If you think that you’ve got God in your hands; it’s not God. It’s a bank account, it’s a credit card, it’s a Fix-it book for dummies, it’s an idol. If you’re trusting in something that you think you can control, then that thing is not God. You got a problem, don’t give up, turn it over to the One who can fix the problem.
Heavenly Father, you have called your servants to ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by paths as yet untrodden, through perils unknown. Give us faith to go out with good courage, not knowing where we go but only that your hand is leading us and your love supporting us through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen.
May God be with you…Jay