The Lord says, "I AM with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you." Genesis 28:15 "The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song." Ps. 28:7.
It makes me wonder how in the world my days turn out like they do sometimes when I read passages like these in God's Word: When I have the trials I do, encounter the people I encounter. But the more I consider the words above, I see the "operative phrase" in it all.
"I AM" is our "strength and shield".
Foremost in the life of a Christian, we must remember that the days in which we are gifted by God... He has a "plan"... He has it all "ready"... long before the alarm goes off. While we are lying in bed, wrestling with our nightmares, our doubts, our confusion, our anxieties... God IS. He knows what's coming the next day. He knows who is going to be the thorn in our side-- the weakness that will eat at our flesh. He knows the circumstance that is going to throw us for a loop. He knows the adversity we are going to face. He knows.
HE KNOWS.
And He wants us to turn to Him... for HE is our "strength and shield".
God the Father. The Almighty One. The Holy and Righteous One. The Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. The Great Physician.
Though our days are filled with things we'd rather not face, we can rely on the SHIELD to keep us from temptation and harm. The arrows of Satan's demons cannot penetrate the heart of a Christian guarded by the Shield of God.
God's strength is made perfect in our weakness. When we look to Him, we can trust His grace to be sufficient to meet every need we have. He will keep us in perfect peace when our mind is focused upon Him. He promises. As our days become darker and the evil of man abounds, our need for the Father is greater with each morning. May we all look to Him and rest in His grace and promises. selahV
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