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Discipleship Focus: Protection
- Protection: In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus teaches us to pray that God might deliver us from evil – even the Evil One. Sometimes we need God’s protection from the sin around us. Sometimes we need protection from the sinful people around us. Other times we need protection from the sin that lies within ourselves. In any case, Jesus’ point is clear. We need protection from the Father to make it through each and every day.
This is a
pretty straight forward protection psalm.
David is in trouble. Enemies have
risen up as the look for him in order that they might do away with him. He feels the noose slipping around his neck
and is not sure how to get out of it.
What is
neat about the protection psalms is that they give us a clear example of what
to do. When David feels threatened, he
turns to the Lord. When David’s future
looks uncertain, he talks to His God and sings the praises of God. When David realizes that his salvation might
be out of his own grasp, he turns to God and knows that salvation most
certainly is still within the grasp of His Lord.
That’s
really what makes the Lord such a good and faithful protector. Who can wrestle our salvation out of the hand
of the Lord? Who can uphold our life any
better than God? Who else can promise us
the ability to live forever with Him and actually deliver upon that very
promise? God is our protector indeed, a
very present help in the time of trouble.
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