Good
Morning All,
Psalm
91:1-2; “He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
We celebrated the 125th
anniversary of our church about 5 years ago.
It was a nice day and we had two big tents up for people to sit under
and eat. After the meal, many just sat
under them and visited. The shade of the
tent provided a comfortable place to sit.
With the sidewalls, the wind was blocked and you could sit
pleasantly.
In biblical times, the
tent or shelter was one of the first things put up and one of the last things
taken down. It provided shelter from the
heat and the rain and the wind. During
the windstorm or sandstorm, it was all that would protect you from the pain and
the grit. It protected the occupants
from excessive heat, poor weather, and provided a cool place to rest.
In our Scripture verse,
we see God’s mercy as this tent. It
shelters us from the blistering attacks of the devil. The threats and the assaults that are sent
our way to destroy our trust in God’s promises.
The devil would rather you were out in the heat experiencing the
discomfort of the fiery blasts that he launches at us. He wants you to see the mirages of his lies
and to think these are the oases which we seek.
We follow the lies and distortions which tell us that we can manage all
of life’s challenges on our own. We are
the masters of our lives and we don’t need anyone or anything; this is just
another of the devil’s attacks to drive us from the safety of God’s
shelter.
It protects us from
blinding storms that the world blows at us.
It seems that the world tries to blow so much stuff at us in order to
confuse us and to block our vision. The
world tries to drive us from god by the blinding and incessant lies that it
pelts us with daily. It tries to make it
difficult for us to look forward to God by making it difficult to see anything. The world distorts reality for all of
us. It twists and turns and
deceives.
Our hope is fully found
in the safety of God’s dwelling; in his shelter. We are safe when we live safely in God’s holy
reign and within the protection of his loving arms. It is in his grace that we are safe. It is in his mercy that we find our
shelter. The forgiveness of our sins
provides us the refuge, that strong and impregnable fortress where we find
peace and hope. This is the place where
we find our shelter.
Dearest Father, you
provide for us the shelter as we face the storms of this life. Father, we often fall short of trusting you
fully and we seek to battle the storms and fight through the lies and the
deceits. Forgive us when we fail to
trust in you. Give to us the faith to
hold onto your grace and to live in your shelter. Send your Spirit of comfort to those who are
in desperate need of your grace. In
Jesus’ precious name we pray, amen.
God’s Peace,
Pastor Bret
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