Blessing and Protection, Psalm 11, Genesis 30-31, Day 27, Jan 27 | Dreaming Beneath the Spires
Relax, The Lord is in his Temple. Psalm 11, Day 26, Jan 26
The light of God surrounds me,
The love of God enfolds me,
The power of God protects me,
The presence of God watches over me.
Wherever I am God is
And all is well.
One of the unexpected side-effects of blogging through the Bible is that it calms me down. Especially when I attempt to blog a Psalm.
The message of this Psalm is Relax. God is in charge, and he has got it all under control.
Psalm 11
1 In the LORD I take refuge.
Just the very words are calming.
How then can you say to me:
“Flee like a bird to your mountain.
2 For look, the wicked bend their bows;
they set their arrows against the strings
to shoot from the shadows
at the upright in heart.
When he considers the might of the opposition, everything seems hopeless. However, we are always under God’s protection, and no arrows can reach us unless he decides to let them reach us.
Hannah Whitall Smith’s “The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life.”
Chapter Twelve: “Is God in Everything?”
“All things work together for the good of them that love the Lord.”
I learned this lesson practically and experimentally long years before I knew the scriptural truth concerning it. I was attending a prayer-meeting held in the interests of the life of faith, when a strange lady rose to speak, and I looked at her, wondering who
