SOAP 2 Chronicles 14: God Problems

God Problems

2 Chronicles 14

Then Asa called to the Lord his God and said, “Lord, there is no one like you to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us, Lord our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this vast army. Lord, you are our God; do not let mere mortals prevail against you.”

2 Chronicles 14:11

Asa knows that he is going into a battle that feels impossible to win. Rather than lay down and give up or focus on all the impossibilities he cries out to God in prayer and leans into God’s amazing strength, protection and miracle working ways to get him through. With his prayer and God on his side, Asa and the people of Judah defeat a million of their enemies. Enemies gathered in droves with the hope of defeating them. But they did not! Thank you Lord!

There is nothing I need more or anything that can provide for me like God can. Yet I fall short of remembering this time and time again. Is it that I don’t remember it? Or that I don’t always believe it? Ouch, it stings to say and read those words. But I think that is what it comes down to. I don’t always believe that God’s got it for me. When I think more about this…I am realizing it’s because I am thinking of it in terms of me. For ME the battle is impossible. But I am not God. I need to stop limiting things to my strength and focus on the strength of God.

An amazing miracle working God is available and accessible to me- to ME! That alone is an awesome thought. He wants to come into my life and help me with whatever I am walking through. We all have hard things and hard times in life. God doesn’t shy away from us in those moments- He desires to be there with us through it. In fact, in our mess is when His light shines the brightest in our lives.

Today and all days, I want to be like Asa. I want to be a woman who sees, understands, and believes with her whole heart that God is the only way to win these battles I face. I cannot do it on my own. No matter how hard I fight. No matter how hard I strive. No matter how hard I try to control my way through situations. I was not created to make it through this messy life on earth myself. I need the blood, perfect love, and guidance of Jesus. Like Asa and the battle he faced, the problems I face are God problems. Problems that only God can get me through.

Lord, who are you that you would help me? That even through my sin you defend me like you do. Only you can do the things you do. I don’t deserve the grace and mercy you give to me and yet you give it freely day after day. I praise you today for the battles you have fought, are fighting and will fight for me. These God problems- I give them to You knowing that only You can win them. In your loving name, Amen.

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