The Lord will Fight for you. You need Only to Stand Still Ex 14:14 | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires

The Lord will Fight for you. You need Only to Stand Still Ex 14:14

Moses says this to the Israelites when they were pursued by the armies of Pharaoh, hemmed in between the armies and the sea. (Which, of course, ultimately parted.)

Cool!

Does it apply at all times? When we are the righteous ones who are persecuted? Or also, when we have sinned and messed up?

Do we fight for our children only when they are in the right? I have often heard people talk despairingly of bad parents who will defend their children, whether they are in the right or wrong. But, I’m guessing, almost everyone has been that sort of bad parent.

I like this Psalm describing God delivering those who have seriously messed things up.

10Some sat in darkness and the deepest gloom,

prisoners suffering in iron chains,

11for they had rebelled against the words of God

and despised the counsel of the Most High.

12So he subjected them to bitter labor;

they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

13Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble,

and he saved them from their distress.

14He brought them out of darkness and the deepest gloom

and broke away their chains.

15Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love

and his wonderful deeds for men,

16for he breaks down gates of bronze

and cuts through bars of iron.

17Some became fools through their rebellious ways

and suffered affliction because of their iniquities.

18They loathed all food

and drew near the gates of death.

19Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble,

and he saved them from their distress.

20He sent forth his word and healed them;

he rescued them from the grave.

21Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love

and his wonderful deeds for men.

22Let them sacrifice thank offerings

and tell of his works with songs of joy. Psalm 107.

So, when the noise of battle rolls around us, we can, unbelievably, have peace in our souls, once we have surrendered the situation into God’s hands. He will fight for us, and help us write a good story with our lives. The outcome of every battle will not go our way, but that is because God has a different plan for us, a different story, which he is writing through battles won and battles lost.

And I love him for that.