God Diverted Them

Today's reading: 2 Chronicles 17-18; Acts 7:1-19


2 Chronicles 18:31 So it was, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, "It is the king of Israel!" Therefore they surrounded him to attack; but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him, and God diverted them from him.

The battle was going poorly and the enemy was closing in on the king so he cried out and the Lord intervened to protect him and diverted the enemy in another direction. The Lord was the ever present help for the king in his time of trouble.

We are in a war, a spiritual one, that has already been decided in our favor by the Lord, but in the middle of the war we face many battles and attacks from our adversary the devil. He has identified us and is working hard to defeat us and while we're the ultimate victors there are days when the battle doesn't go well for us usually because we grow careless or try to handle the fight on our own. That never seems to work out we end up in danger of falling. Regardless of how we got there when we cry out to God He hears and responds to bring us deliverance by diverting the enemy's attention away from us and onto something else that ends up leading him to defeat. It's not that we're such good tacticians in the battle because if we were left to our own abilities we would always snatch defeat from the jaws of  victory, but with God our victory is assured when we cry out to Him.