April 4
GOD'S HORNETS
"And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the
Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee" Exod. 23:28
What the hornets were we need not consider. They were God's own
army, which He sent before His people to sting their enemies, and
render Israel's conquest easy. Our God by His own chosen means will
fight for His people, and gall their foes, before they come into the
actual battle. Often He confounds the adversaries of truth by methods
in which reformers themselves have no hand. The air is full of
mysterious influences which harass Israel's foes. We read in the
Apocalypse that "the earth helped the woman.
Let us never fear. The stars in their courses fight against the
enemies of our souls. Oftentimes when we march to the conflict we find
no host to contend with. "The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall
hold your peace." God's hornets can do more than our weapons. We could
never dream of the victory being won by such means as Jehovah will
use. We must obey our marching orders and go forth to the conquest of
the nations for Jesus, and we shall find that the Lord has gone before
us, and prepared the way; so that in the end we shall joyfully
confess, "His own right hand, and his holy arm, have gotten him the
victory."