God is your
peace and He is the one who goes with you into the battles of life. You may be
up against seemingly impossible odds, but you are certainly not fighting alone.
September’s Awakening, Day 15
Now
Gideon perceived that He was the Angel of the LORD. So Gideon said, “Alas, O
Lord God! For I have seen the Angel of the LORD face to face.” Then the LORD
said to him, “Peace be with you; do not fear, you shall not die.” So Gideon
built an altar there to the LORD, and called it The-LORD-Is-Peace. To this day it is still in Ophrah of the
Abiezrites. Judges 6:22–24 NKJV
Yahweh-Shalom (or Jehovah-Shalom), is
the name that Gideon used to describe God after his encounter with the Angel of the LORD. We will discuss this
in further detail in a later devotion, but for now understand that this is no
ordinary angel of God, but is in fact the Son of God Himself, the pre-incarnate
Jesus Christ, before He was made man. Thus, this is a direct encounter and visitation
by God directly to Gideon (and there were many other such instances recorded in
the Old Testament). Because it was thought that one could not be directly in
the presence of God and live, Gideon was obviously overwhelmed, yet our God is
the “LORD my Peace,” even in the
most dire and death-defying situations. Call upon our God of Peace in your
valleys of dismal despair.
Then
David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and
with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies
of Israel, whom you have defied. 1 Samuel 17:45 NKJV
And
when the servant of the man of God arose early and went out, there was an army,
surrounding the city with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, “Alas,
my master! What shall we do?” So he answered, “Do not fear, for those who are
with us are more than those who are with them.” And Elisha prayed, and said,
“LORD, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” Then the LORD opened the eyes of
the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and
chariots of fire all around Elisha. 2 Kings 6:15–17 NKJV
Yahweh-Sabaoth (or Jehovah-Sabaoth), our
“LORD of hosts,” literally the
innumerable angelic army of heaven. David calls upon the heavenly host to
support him in his conquest of the giant Philistine, Goliath, just as the
prophet Elisha did when the Syrians came to war against Israel. You may be the
underdog, the unlikely, one against impossible odds—yet open your spiritual
eyes and look around you and see the invincible and innumerable angelic
heavenly host with horses and glistening chariots of fire that are all around
you. No, you are not alone in life’s battles. Call upon the LORD of hosts.
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