The Other Side

Early this morning, I posted on my other daily blog (www.worddujour.blogspot.com) a passage of Scripture that is one of my favorite accounts in the Old Testament.

I love the Bible because it is not only the Word of God, but it relates the real stories of real ordinary people and how they come to realize who God is and what He can do in their lives.

And through my reading His Word this morning, God reminded me:
                The circumstances are not the main event.

When the servant of the man of God

rose early in the morning

and went out, behold,

an army with horses and chariots

was round about the city.

And the servant said,

"Alas, my master!

      What shall we do?"

Elisha said, "Fear not,

   for those who are with us

   are more than those

   who are with them."

Then Elisha prayed, and said,

"O LORD, I pray to You,

open his eyes

      that he may see."

So the LORD opened the eyes

   of the young man, and he saw,

and behold, the mountain was

full of horses and chariots of fire

                        round about Elisha.

                   2 Kings 6. 15-17

(Feeling that kind of

           overwhelmed?

"Then Elisha prayed..."

It is not that

    "God will show up,"

but He opens our eyes

           to see He is already here.

The LORD is my strength.

Even in this.)

Enlarge our vision, O LORD,

that we may see

    what is really going on.

And that we may know You

even more in this

and through this impossible situation.

God never works in singular outcomes.
His faithfulness stretches
   even beyond the heavens He created.
And surely,
                  a lot more than this.

Feeling overwhelmed?
   Look to the LORD
                who overcomes.
There is another side to this.

For we are powerless against this great multitude
that is coming against us.
We do not know what to do,
         but our eyes are on You.

                             2 Chronicles 20. 12