When Syrian troops surrounded Dothan to capture Elisha, his servant cried out in fear. Elisha prayed for his eyes to be opened, and he saw the mountain full of horses and chariots of fire. The enemy was real, but it was not all that was there. God then struck the troops with blindness at Elisha’s prayer, and the men who had come to seize him followed him into Samaria. Their weapons had not placed them beyond God’s authority. Fear can fill our view with everything standing against us until we forget whom we trust. We cannot see everything God sees or know every way He may act, but we can bring our danger before Him. Being surrounded is not the same as being beyond God’s reach.
“And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.” —2 Kings 6:17
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