Contemplative Bible Reading

2 Chronicles 15:5-7 (New Living Translation)

⁵ “During those dark times, it was not safe to travel. Problems troubled the people of every land. ⁶ Nation fought against nation, and city against city, for God was troubling them with every kind of problem.⁷ But as for you, be strong and courageous, for your work will be rewarded.”

I work in project management. One of the fundamentals of that is something called risk management. The fundamental question in risk management is,

what could possibly go wrong?

Years of asking this question has brought long lists of problems to mind. Something that I have noticed is the vast majority of these possible problems don’t happen. They are possible and some are likely, but most don’t happen.

Not so in the verses above. At that time, in that place, God allowed every kind of possible problem to occur. That must have been awful. Imagine you have four flat tires on your car this morning as well as a dead battery. Far fetched? Not really as it is possible. Then when you work past that, the fire department has the road blocked because they are fighting a fire. Far fetched? Not really as it is possible. I could go on.

God grants us peace in our lives every day. He doesn’t trouble us with every kind of problem as He did during the time described in these verses.

Thank you God for your peaceful hand in our lives. We don’t deserve it, but we certainly enjoy it.