#20Where To Look
"O our God, wilt thou not judge them?
II Chronicles 20:12
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#20Where To Look "O our God, wilt thou not judge them? II Chronicles 20:12 |
| THE context from which we take the above verse is this:
a great number of soldiers of the Moabites, Ammonites and others was coming upon Judah with a great army, one so large that the people of Judah seemed as nothing in their sight. Jehoshaphat, the leader for Judah, knew they could not possibly match the enemy in their own strength. That would be an impossibility. The odds were against him. Therefore, he earnestly prayed to the Lord for wisdom as to know just what he should do. Jehoshaphat told the Lord that they did not know what to do, but that their eyes were upon the Lord. There are three groups of people to whom the above words should be a great comfort. The first we might mention is the unsaved. "There is no peace, saith my Lord, to the wicked." Surely unsaved people are constantly meeting defeat on every hand. The enemy is so great that none can overcome him in his own strength. Therefore, the unsaved person should look to Jesus, put his eyes upon the Lord. "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else." (Isaiah 45:22) The second group of which we are now thinking is the saved ones, the Christians. Those who have already looked to the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. After we are saved is certainly the very time we should keep our eyes upon the Lord. Many times we do not know which way to turn, and seemingly there is no place to hide from the enemy. However, the One who has saved us is now our Shepherd, and He knows just exactly how and where to lead His people. The third group is made up of the Christians who are in definite Christian work, such as ministers, missionaries, Sunday School teachers, personal evangelists, etc. Surely many times we do not know just which way to go and do not know what to do. And sometimes the task will be so great that we will think it impossible. Then is the time to say, "Lord, we do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon Thee."
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ALL ABOUT THE AUTHOR Evangelist and Pastor, Dr. Marvin Lewis
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