“The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands…”
Psalm 68:17
You claim you’ve given it to God. You say that God is your vindicator and your strength and it’s all in His hands.
So why are you still trying to assist God in winning on your behalf?!
A few days ago, a situation interrupted my morning abruptly and disrupted the peace I should have woken up with. This was not a new thing. It had happened before. It involved the same people and the same intentions, but the only thing different now is the person it was happening to – me. Thank God we are not who we used to be.
But when the problem erupted, when the anger was stirred, when the discomfort was evoked, it threatened a firm belief that I had come to ground myself – that God is indeed my vindicator and my present help.
We live in a world of beauty and cruelty, a world of evil and God’s goodness, a world of just men and wicked ones, a world of kind spirits and unrighteous souls and from time to time, we endure unfair and malicious treatment from people.
Whether we had it coming or not, the blow delivered hurts and threatens to knock us out. So we tell ourselves that we ought to fight back.
The problem with that truth, is that it often becomes blurred by our puffed up ability to discern how to fight back.
The battle is not mine, it’s the Lord’s,” is what we tell ourselves.
Then, we go back and try to add our own might to win.
Friend, you can’t remain on the battlefield after you have called on God for a victory! How much trust have you really placed on God to take care of it? How much respect do you really have for God’s judgment against your enemies?
No, what you want to happen may not happen when you want it or how you want it. But are your thoughts and ways higher than the Most High God?!
Believe me, I know how hard it is for the flesh to be overridden when we are pushed to a place of discomfort or anger.
Rather than being so quick to spill hate with your words or bury love with your actions, I urge you to be still and trust in the wisdom of a sovereign God to cover you when your foes try to overtake you.
You tagged God in. Now you have to get out of the ring and out of the way to let God be God. Let your heavenly Father fight for you!
You don’t need to make any extra calls to this one and that one to badmouth the person or persons that hurt you or try to destroy you. Nor should you go on side missions visiting one place to another devising ways to get even. Leave it alone to the Mighty One who can do all things. Let God handle it.
It is my prayer that as you and I walk closer to God, we are filled with wisdom every step of the way to know our place in the battle and to understand God’s powerful role as the One who still sits on the throne. May we begin to trust that victory is indeed ours in Jesus name. Amen.
