What To Do When You Don't Know What to Do

In yesterday's post, you read how in Second Chronicles Chapter 20, King Jehoshaphat sought the Lord and kept his eyes on Him.Today, you will see what Jehoshaphat believed and spoke forth more specifically, which manifests the attitude that every believer should have toward God.

We can rest assured in adopting the style of this king, because in Christ, we are made kings and priests:

"Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." (1 Peter 2: 5)

and then

"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light." (1 Peter 2: 9)

We reign in life through Christ (Romans 5: 17), seated in heavenly places with Him (Ephesians 2: 6), so let us proclaim with faith as King Jehoshaphat did:

"And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court," (2 Chronicles 20: 5)

We stand before God as Christ, and we can trust that whatever we ask in His name, God hears us (1 John 3: 22; 5: 15), and just as Jehoshaphat stood in a new court, let us come before God with our minds renewed to the truth of His Word (Romans 12:2)

"And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?" (2 Chronicles 20: 6)

Let us magnify the Lord God in our minds. He is God. He exists, and by faith we know that the worlds we live in and view in the heavens were made by Him (Hebrews 11: 1) When we recall to ourselves that He is God, and that He is in charge of everything, and that we have a covenant with Him, right away our fears began to melt away.

"Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?" (2 Chronicles 20: 7)

Praise God for the mighty deeds which He has already done in your life. For the believer, there is no greater victory granted to us than the redemption given to us through the death and resurrection of His Son, by whom we have now life everlasting, and by whom we are also Abraham's seed (Galatians 3: 29), heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ (Romans 8: 18)

"And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,

"If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help." (2 Chronicles 20: 8-9)

God kept His promises to the Israelites, and He has kept His greatest promise to every believer, giving us His Son. Will He not also meet every other need we have in Christ, whether threats without or lack within? (Romans 8: 31-32)

"And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;

"Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit." (2 Chronicles 20: 10-11)

We praise God for who He is, for what He is done, that He is trustworthy. We then outline for God the problems that we are facing. Our problems become smaller and smaller as we make God bigger and bigger in our lives. Always, let us press our standing, impress upon God the promises which He has made to us:

"Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

"According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

"Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." (2 Peter 1: 2-4)

Having renewed our minds fully to the truth of who God is in our lives, how true and faithful he is to come through in our lives, and having shared with him our problems, now greatly diminished, then we can speak with Jehoshaphat, and say:

"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." (Chronicles 20: 12)

And for the believer, we have our eyes set on victory:

"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

"Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

"For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." (Colossians 3: 1-3)