Some Thoughts From Proverbs 21

Proverbs  21:30-31

³⁰ No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel
    can avail against the Lord.
³¹ The horse is made ready for the day of battle,
    but the victory belongs to the Lord.

These two verses carry the sum total of the futility of opposing God.

 21:30  The counsel of man, be it scientific genius, military planning, political preparation or a co-operative endeavor, is never adequate to defeat God.

The present leadership of the U.S. is the best illustration of the saying “God can take a crooked stick and strike a straight lick”.

21:31 No matter how powerful, how terrible, how overwhelming the engines of war are, “the victory is the Lord’s.”  The failure to recognize this has kept the historians baffled when faced with irrational battle strategies.  Think of only two.  A)  Why did Spain begin a conflict with the U.S.A?  Their most prestigious military minds, which by the way were naval, warned them against this.

B)  Why did Hitler open up the front against Russia?  Yes, he needed the oil but he could have bought it.  They were allies at the time.  As mighty as the German engines of war were, the victory was the Lord’s.