Feeling embattled? Time for a higher view.

The day is just getting started, and already we feel as if we’re doing battle. On one side, there’s the normal, calm life we all want to live, and on the other the disturbance and negative sense of life that seem to take many different forms as the pandemic drags on. 

We’re not alone if we feel battle-worn. More importantly, we’re not alone in yearning to find a better perspective on life, one that opens up fresh ideas and brings peacefulness and well-being. A spiritual perspective can do this. Consider what happened to King Jehoshaphat.

One day he received word that a great army was coming to do battle with him, and at first he was afraid. Then the king did what turned out to be the right thing: In the face of the crisis he called for prayer, and he encouraged all the people of his kingdom to trust in God. Then the Bible says the Lord said (through Jahaziel), “Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s.”