Word for Today - 14 May 2025

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“There is none like you to help.” 2 Chronicles 14:11 ESV
Put God between yourself and the foe
Faced with an enemy he couldn’t conquer on his own, King Asa prayed, “Lord, there is no one like you to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us…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.’ The Lord struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah” (vv. 11-12 NIV). F. B. Meyer writes: “Remind God of his entire responsibility. ‘There is none like thee to help.’ The odds against Asa were enormous. There were a million men in arms…beside three hundred chariots. It seemed impossible to hold his own against that vast multitude. There were no allies who would come to his help: his only hope therefore was in God. There was none beside to help. It may be that your difficulties have been allowed to come to so alarming a pitch that you may be compelled to renounce all creature aid, to which in lesser trials you have had recourse, and cast yourself back on your Almighty friend. Put God between yourself and the foe. To Asa’s faith, Jehovah seemed to stand between the might of Zerah and himself, as one who had no strength. Nor was he mistaken…the Ethiopians were destroyed before the Lord, and before His host, as though celestial combatants flung themselves against the foe on Israel’s behalf…Our God is Jehovah of Hosts, who can summon unexpected reinforcements at any moment to the aid of his people. Believe that he is there between you and your difficulty, and what baffles you will flee before him as clouds before the gale.”
13 May English South Africa Christianity

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