NOTHING LEFT BUT GOD

GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS

365 DEVOTIONS FROM OUR DAILY BREAD

NOTHING LEFT BUT GOD

READ:  2 Chronicles 20:1-17

Do not be afraid nor dismayed because

of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours,

but God’s.  2 Chronicles 20:15

A wise Bible teacher once said, “Sooner or later God will bring self-sufficient people to the place where they have no resource but Him-no strength, no answers, nothing but Him.  Without God’s help, they’re sunk.”

He then told of a despairing man who confessed to his pastor, “My life is really in bad shape.”  How bad?” the pastor inquired.  Burying his head in his hands, the man moaned, “I’ll tell you how bad-all I’ve got left is God.”  The pastor’s face lit up.  “I’m happy to assure you that a person with nothing left but God has more than enough for great victory!”

In today’s Bible reading, the people of Judah were also in trouble.  They admitted their lack of power and wisdom to conquer their foes.  All they had left was God!  But King Jehoshaphat and the people saw this as reason for hope, not despair.  “Our eyes are upon You,” they declared to God (2 Chronicles 20:12).  And their hope was not disappointed as He fulfilled His promise: “The battle is not yours, but God’s (v.15).

Are you in a position where all self-sufficiency is gone?  As you turn your eyes on the Lord and put your hope in Him, you have God’s reassuring promise that you need nothing more.  JY

In You, O Lord, we take delight,

Our every need You will supply;

We long to do what’s good and right,

So, Lord, on You we will rely. -DJD

When all you have is God, you have all you need.