It Is Nothing (for God to help us)

2 Chronicles 14:11 KJV
And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.

After having 10 years of peace, King Asa finds himself in what I think is his first battle crisis. The Ethiopians have come up against him with 1,000,300 soldiers. Asa has 280,000. So from the human standpoint, Asa is in a bad way.

His men are outmanned and his men are, if not inexperienced, at least not hardened by recent battle. Asa has but one recourse; he cried unto the Lord.

God is not limited by the things that limit us. He does not need to have many of us. Nor does he need to have the most powerful of us. To God belongs all power and authority and might. God does not need us, we need Him. And the secret to victory in our lives is to simply rest upon Him.

God, the Bible says, smote the Ethiopians so that they fled and were overthrown by Asa's men. No great explanation of how God did it. No detailed description of the battle scene itself. Only that God smote the enemy.

• It is nothing for God to help us.
• It is nothing for God to bless us.
• It is nothing for God to use us.

We must just rest on Him.