Reading:
Genesis 8

So Noah and those with him were cooped up and adrift with death and destruction swirling all around them.

For a long time.

With nowhere to go.

Stuck, in a sense. Safe, yes, but “stranded” in the ark.

God had remembered to preserve them from the death and destruction.

But what about after the horrible episode was over?

“And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark…” (1).

God still remembers!

Even me!

“After the test, rest” — I just thought of that one.

And this one: “During the test, rest.”

I’ll take a mega size order of after-rest and an even bigger one of during-rest, please.

(Thanks!)

[And God remembered (Genesis 8:1)]
from Genesis 8:1

Reading:
2 Chronicles 20:1-17

Overwhelmed. Overrun. Over stressed. Over committed.

Over.

Under threat. Under attack. Under equipped. Under achieving.

Under.

What to do?

Ask Jehoshaphat!

“O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee” (12).

Listen to Jahaziel!

“Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you” (17).

Wow! I needed that!

I still do, in fact.

[Feared, and set himself to seek the LORD (2 Chronicles 20:3)]
from 2 Chronicles 20:3