07/06/2022
Sunday, July 3, 2022
Selah
(Words of Exhortation)
Psalm 91:9 & 10 NIV
9 If you say, “The LORD is my refuge,”
and you make the Most High your
dwelling,
10 no harm will overtake you,
no disaster will come near your
tent.
A refuge is a condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or trouble, something providing cover. Glory, glory hallelujah it is so comforting to know the LORD covers us. Consider the first part of this verse. The promise comes only after we have fulfilled the beginning of this statement. We must make the LORD our refuge. We must always look to God. We can do absolutely nothing without Him. We must bring everything to Him and Him alone. There’s no getting around it. When we are willing to give ourselves to the LORD, He has ownership of our bodies. We belong to God anyway, yet it’s best when we are willing.
Some of us have walked out from under God’s protection and then blamed God for the things that go wrong in our lives. We can’t rebel against the LORD and expect Him to bless us. Being under God’s refuge is the safest place we could ever be. Proverbs 12:21 reads, No harm comes to the godly, but the wicked have their fill of troubles. Although harm does befall the godly, they are able to see opportunities in their problems to move ahead. The wicked, without God’s wisdom, are ill equipped to handle their problems. We sometimes believe they live better lives than Christians. But if you live long enough you will see. They will get their just rewards. Unless they repent and come to Jesus.
Yet God still says, no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent. It means that all this evil that surrounds us will not conquer us. God uses the things we go through to prune and change and move us forward. It rains on the just and unjust. Even though we are Christians we still sin, although hopefully we don’t practice sinning. Instead of saying and feeling woe is me, try running to God as our refuge and fortress. We will soon see that our circumstances and situations will be for our ultimate good. Try instead thanking the LORD for helping you to be back under His umbrella. One of the hymns that attest to this is, Safe in His Arms by Milton Brunson.
When the storms of life is raging.
And the sea billows roll.
So glad He shall hide me.
Safe in His Arms.
Thank You LORD!
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