Wednesday... They really can be tough to move.

Psalm 18:2 (NLT), "The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my savior; my God is my rock, in whom I feel protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me."

Wednesday... They really can be tough to move.

I don't know if you watched many of those old westerns on TV. I loved them.

We now live in Nevada but we go across the desert to get to Los Angeles. Now as you head down the Pass to LA you will see road 395. If you take that road north you will see so many big boulders. If you head up to the town of Lone Pines you will see where they filmed a lot of those old Westerns. There are boulders all over the place. Those cowboys were filmed all over them. We also lived in Colorado looking up at the Rocky Mountains.

Yes, those boulders are tough to move and they can be a great place to hide from your troubles.

Now David was being pursued by King Saul who wanted to kill him and during that time he wrote Psalm 18. Here is what verse 2 says, "The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my savior; my God is my rock, in whom I feel protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me." Again he says, "My God is my rock."

Many times, we need pictures in our minds that will calm us and give us courage in our struggles.

We have beautiful rocks here in Vegas. We have this canyon that is called Red Rock Canyon and you can climb all over them. They are beautiful. The LORD is my Red Rock. I can't climb them now at my age but I can hide behind them.

So just a picture in your mind today. "The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my savior; my God is my rock, in whom I feel protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me."

The Amplified Bible says, "The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and the One who rescues me; My God, my rock and strength in whom I trust and take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower - my stronghold." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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