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Wednesday... Is he exaggerating? Is he?


Wednesday... Is he exaggerating? Is he?

When I read Psalm 91, it is easy to think the writer is exaggerating, especially with what we have just gone through, but I believe he isn't. He really isn't.

As I was outside this morning looking up into the blue sky and reminiscing about my life, looking back on the 76 years that I have lived I could see some difficult days in there but I could also see it as a whole, up to this point, as an unbelievable life.

Look at verses 14-16 (NLT). "The Lord says, 'I will rescue those who love me. I will protect those who trust in my name. When they call on me, I will answer; I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and honor them with a long life and give them my salvation.'" 

I have had the privilege of living 76 years. Now I believe that I have some more years ahead of me on this earth but at some point I will move over into a new life like my dad and mom and that will be an everlasting life. I believe that. But even if that is not true which some would say, I have been honored with a long life. And in those years I can see where God rescued me and protected me, that when I was in trouble and I called on Him, He answered me. 

In verses 1-4 the writer says, "Those who live in the shelter of the Most High will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty. This I declare about the Lord. He alone is my refuge, my place of safety; he is my God, and I trust him. For he will rescue you from every trap and protect you from deadly disease. He will cover you with his feathers. He will shelter you with his wings. His faithful promises are your armor and protection."

I have found that to be true.

Now verses 9-10 says what we need to do. It says, "If you make the Lord your refuge, if you make the Most High your shelter, no evil will conquer you; no plague will come near you;" I know, I know we got Covid. It didn't come to us, we went to where it was and we may not have done all we should have done but it didn't conquer us, we made it through. 

And then verses 11-12 (AMP), "For He will command His angels in regard to you, to protect and defend you in all your ways [of obedience and service]. They will lift you up in their hands, so that you do not [even] strike your foot against a stone."

Now it takes a different kind of view, a different kind of perspective to see that to be the truth and not an exaggeration. But here again is the key. Verse 14 in the Amplified Bible says, "Because he set his love on Me, therefore I will save him; I will set him [securely] on high, because he knows My name [he confidently trusts and relies on Me, knowing I will never abandon him, no, never.]" That is what God says and I have and do believe it and have proven it to be true.

And you can too! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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