Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:12-13.

In our chapter, 2 Chronicles 14, we meet Asa, king of Judah. Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God. v. 1. The land is still ours, because we have sought the Lord our God; we sought him and he has given us rest on every side. v. 7. And when a foreign army tried to invade, Asa called upon God and He helped them, v. 9-15.

One of the greatest blessings we will ever know is our Creator God walking with us through every need. We may not face armies, though there are nations today that do. What are the “armies” we face? Cancer? Losing a loved one? Poverty? Drug or alcohol addiction? Loneliness and depression? Hate from others? God’s love is the rest we seek. He won’t turn away. I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears. Psalm 34:4.

I have been reading a wonderful book. Open and Unafraid (The Psalms as a Guide to Life) by W. David O. Taylor. He doesn’t list every Psalm in order. He guides us to the uplifting help found within the Psalms. In the chapter Joy, he shared what Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in 1942: The joy of God has been through the poverty of the manger and the affliction of the cross; therefore, it is indestructible, irrefutable. It does not deny affliction when it is there, but it finds in the very midst of distress that God is there; it does not argue that sin is not grievous, but in that very place of sin is found forgiveness; it looks death in the face and it is just there that it finds life.

That’s what we find in God…forgiveness, life, rest from our fears, the arms of our Creator who made us and loves us still. Asa faced the armies of Cush; Bonhoeffer faced the Gestapo. What do we face? With the blessing of God walking with us, we are never alone. The Lord gives rest. The Lord gives hope. Seek the Lord. He’s here. Always. Take His hand and trust your heart to Him.