Jehoshaphat’s loss



If we must be divinely led, then it's important to complete the cycle of trusting God, acknowleding Him and not depending on ourselves. Did you say why ‘trusting and acknowledging’? It’s possible to trust God yet not acknowledge Him in all our ways, and it’s also possible to acknowledge Him without trusting Him. Well, that’s a message for another day.

When we do not allow God to chart the course of our lives, failure is inevitable. Jehoshaphat was a man who encountered  God’s greatness and power in a very strange dimension (2 Chronicles 20:5-12,  21-25). I don’t think he had any problems with trusting God. If you read 2 Chronicles 20:6-9, you would understand the depth of Jehoshaphat’s knowledge of Who God is.

However, Jehoshaphat made a serious mistake in business because He felt there were areas of his life which was within his control and left God out.

After this Jehoshaphat king of Judah allied himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who acted very wickedly. And he allied himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish, and they made the ships in Ezion Geber. But Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have allied yourself with Ahaziah, the Lord has destroyed your works.” Then the ships were wrecked, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish. 2 Chron. 20:35-37 NKJV

God’s Word in Prov. 3:6 admonishes us to acknowledge God in ALL our ways...not some of them. Trusting God must be accompanied with acknowledging Him if we must be divinely led.

Oh what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry EVERYTHING to God in prayer (a line from ‘What a friend we have in Jesus’).

Action Point
In all your ways acknowledge Him.

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