God Help Me Be Bold Like a Child

2nd Kings 6

I remember being a child and always having more guts than I do now. I do not know if that means I just was not afraid to get hurt or do certain things. Now if you asked me to do a trick on a skateboard compared to when I was a teenager I could not. I always had this feeling that nothing could hurt me. I was almost invinsible. I know that was not completely true because I would get hurt but I still felt protected. If someone would come and try to hurt me, I felt the confidence of my dad able to protect me.

In this chapter we read about God’s protection over the child of God and how there is a spiritual battle going on.

Elisha-Hidden Soldiers of God-Deliverance

We read in this chapter that the king of Syria was making raids on Israel. He was trying to break down the moral of the people of Israel so he raided on bordering towns of Israel and Syria. Somehow everytime the Syrians came to raid on the people of Israel, the soldiers of Israel were ready to fight. The king scratched his head and said, “How do they know where I am going to raid next?” The answer was because God revealed this information to Elisha who then told the king of Israel.

Well, the king of Syria found out that this man Elisha was ruing all the fun and he wanted to end that. Elisha’s servant arose early and found out that there were horses and chariots of the Syrians all around the city and asked Elisha, “So what do we do?” The reality would seem that there was no hope for Elisha, obviously they were outnumbered, obviously Elisha and his band of prophets were not trained soldiers. It would seem to the worl that they were done for but when God is in control there is always his way.

Elisha knew something the servant did not and that was God was the protector and was protecting them right at that moment. He asked God to open the eyes of the young servant and as God did, the servant saw the mountains around them full of horses and chariots of fire. It was God’s army that was there ready to fight.

God had another plan than what was happening, Elisha asked that the Syrians would be blinded and they were. Elisha then told them they were at the wrong place and that he would direct them to the proper place. He led them to the capitol of Israel, Samaria where the king and the army would be ready to capture them. Elisha walked them right into the hands of their enemies. This was God’s plan of deliverance for Elisha.

Imagine if we had an invincible attitude when it came to spiritual life. What if our eyes were opened and we saw the army of God around us and ready to fight. We know in Ephesians 6:10-20 that there is a spiritual war going on. Do we know that God is there and knows what is going on. He knows that the devil wants to destroy us. He knows that temptation is always knocking at our door. We see throughout the Psalms that God is our warrior, our shield, our strength, our fortress, our right hand, and our protector. Are you timid in your spiritual walk because you feel like you will fail? Like when I was a child, I felt like I could do more crazy things and not get hurt. Now, I feel like I need to be safe because I can get hurt, what happened? I wish I could be more like the child Jon in my spiritual walk and not be timid. I pray that God would open my eyes like the servant of Elisha and I can be bold in a dark world.