And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
Handing the Moabites over to Israel was only a light, small matter in the Lord's sight, even when it stood before them as a seeming impossibility blocking the way. The promise holds out a test of faith, calling for trust not in what people are able to do for themselves but in what God is able to do for them and through them. Those engaged in God's solemn work still meet the same kind of testing and temptation to doubt.
The required response under such testing is to move forward with faith and patience in that trust. Those who so trust will certainly come to realize His power in their work. For God works in ways least expected by human minds, and He has ways and means prepared for every emergency.
The battle against the enemy is turned and victory is secured not by human strength but by God's strength, exercised for the glory of His own name. It is the strength of the mighty General of armies that acts on behalf of His people. Therefore no one is to limit the Holy One, whose power is from of old and whose ways are past finding out, by drawing in clear lines the way He must work.
Handing the Moabites over to Israel was only a light, small matter in the Lord's sight, even when it stood before them as a seeming impossibility blocking the way. The promise holds out a test of faith, calling for trust not in what people are able to do for themselves but in what God is able to do for them and through them. Those engaged in God's solemn work still meet the same kind of testing and temptation to doubt.
The required response under such testing is to move forward with faith and patience in that trust. Those who so trust will certainly come to realize His power in their work. For God works in ways least expected by human minds, and He has ways and means prepared for every emergency.
The battle against the enemy is turned and victory is secured not by human strength but by God's strength, exercised for the glory of His own name. It is the strength of the mighty General of armies that acts on behalf of His people. Therefore no one is to limit the Holy One, whose power is from of old and whose ways are past finding out, by drawing in clear lines the way He must work.