Scheduled Reading: (Click here to read the passages; Click back in your browser to return to the devotional)
- 2 Chronicles 13 - 15
- Psalm 91:12-92:1
- Proverbs 19:9-10
- Acts 20:17-38
It's 580,000 if you do the math. Over 1/2 of 1,000,000 "brave fighting men" with shields, spears, and arrows. That is no small number. Yet Asa pled his case to the Lord - we are weak and powerless and will be defeated if you are not with us. In the NIV the verse is a bit vague as to the size of his opponents. The literal Hebrew is a tad more specific than "vast": thousands of thousands which more than likely is to be understood as "millions"... with chariots.
Have you ever felt overwhelmed like that? Doubtful that you have been under a military siege of millions of soldiers, but your troubles are significant in their own right. Perhaps you have bills you are not quite sure from where the funds will come to pay them. Perhaps it is a doctor's report that has you against a wall. It very well could be a relationship going south. It could be all of the above.
Asa did what he could to be prepared for contingencies. Yet even though he was prepared on his end, he understood that his success depended on the presence of the Lord and His glory. The same holds for us in our battles. We are responsible for our part, to be sure. At the same time we are to rely on the Lord for the victories with which we seek to glorify Him.
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