Where is your hope in times of trouble? During the current crisis, most Americans have turned to the wisdom of the government for a solution to their fears. The freedom loving people of America have sold a large measure of their constitutional and unalienable birthrights, among them Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness, to elected and unelected officials in return for what no mere men can ever provide, namely health, safety, and endless life.

Therefore he sent horses and chariots and a great army there and they came by night and surrounded the city. – II Kings 6:14 NKJV

What did Pharaoh (Ex. 14), Sisera (Judges 4), and Ben-Hadad all have in common? In the hour of battle and crisis, they all turned to their chariots and horses for strength and victory only to sustain terrible defeat. The Psalmist says, “Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the Lord our God” (Psalm 20:7).

Where is your hope in times of trouble? During the current crisis, most Americans have turned to the wisdom of the government for a solution to their fears. The freedom loving people of America have sold a large measure of their constitutional and unalienable birthrights, among them Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness, to elected and unelected officials in return for what no mere men can ever provide, namely health, safety, and endless life.

Trusting in the ever changing guidelines of medical experts, executive orders, and livelihood destroying economic policies, the result after ten months is a higher number of daily deaths than any prior time in the pandemic. The states and cities with the most extreme totalitarian practices seem to be having the highest number of new cases and deaths. The hopes of the world have failed, sickness and death continue, and the ramifications are likely to last far beyond the present crisis.

The way of the worldly is to put their trust in worldly strength. Whether strength is believed to come from money, armies, medical advancement, political prowess, or some other means, the world will rely on its perceptions of strength as Ben-Hadad did when he sent his great army to capture Elisha.

Dothan was not known to have Israelite armies garrisoning it, nor was it known to be strategically important to Israel or Syria in their war. Ben-Hadad cared about Dothan for one reason – Elisha was there and he wanted Elisha, dead or alive. To accomplish this goal, Ben-Hadad sent “horses and chariots, and a great army”… exactly as described by the Psalmist.

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