Today’s reading II Chronicles 16-19

II Chronicles 18:31 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.

God’s man made mistakes in who he hooked up with. He found himself in a fight that he didn’t belong in but there he was. When the battle turned bad then Jehoshaphat cried unto the Lord and God helped him and caused his enemies to leave him.

I think that we often think that once we mess up that it would be useless to call on God. We get discouraged and listen to Satan telling us that God will not answer.

But that is not true. Cry out to the Lord and He will listen. He will hear and move in your life.

God will work in your life!

Today’s reading II Chronicles 12-15

II Chronicles 14:11 And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.

Asa understands the power of God. He knows that God’s help is not based on how strong he is but rather that God is strong. God can do great things with a few or with many. God can help the strong or the weak.

The key from Asa’s point of view was that he would trust God. He knew that they had no where else to turn. They would rest in God. They would ask Him to move and work and then wait to see what He would do.

That is the only answer for us as well. We must let God work in our lives. He is not a God to be called on in trouble but at all times. We are to recognize that He is the God that works.

We can trust Him. We can rest. So let’s call on Him to do great and mighty things.

Today’s reading II Chronicles 8-11

II Chronicles 9:23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.

Solomon was an extremely wise man, the wisest. It is easy to think of how smart he was, how educated he was, how much he read and thought but more true is that God gave him that wisdom.

We want to think in terms of what a man has accomplished. We rarely think of God doing something. When we think in terms of how wise we are or what we have accomplished we put the emphasis in the wrong place and get glory for ourselves.

People are coming from every where to hear the wisdom that Solomon speaks. It is easy to see the man and elevate him. It is easy to think of him as something special but the Scriptures are clear, God put it in his heart.

I want to remember that God lifts up and puts down. It is God that makes us and gives us all that we have.

We should work as hard as we can but never forget that it is all about Him, what He has done, what He is doing, and He gets all the glory!