Year 5, Day 225: Psalms 91

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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.

I think it is really easy to read this psalm and hear about the protection of the Lord.  In almost every verse – and definitely in every stanza – we hear about the Lord and His ability to protect us.  We dwell in His shelter.  He is our refuge and fortress.  He covers us with His pinions.  We find shelter under His wings.  I could keep going, but I will assume that you catch my meaning.

But I think in order to understand the true depth of this psalm we need to understand its full context.  Many of the verses of Pslam 91 are used in reference to God’s Messiah.  We can see this especially in Psalm 91:11-12, where we hear about the angels and their protection.  This is a passage that is used in reference to Jesus.

Let’s stop for a second and remember what happened to Jesus.  He was handed over by a friend.  He was arrested.  He was tried.  He was beaten.  He was mocked.  He was flogged.  He carried His own cross.  He was then crucified upon it.

If that doesn’t give us an interesting perspective on protection, then I don’t know what does!

However, we continue to look at God’ Messiah.  God protected Him from death.  Jesus didn’t stay dead, He rose up from the dead.  Jesus conquered death.  Jesus ascended into heaven, where He reigns until He should return to reign here, too.

You see, in Jesus we really see protection.  We like to think in the temporal; God likes to work in the eternal.  We want protection from the people and their evil around us; God wants to save us from an eternity of evil.  God’s protection is far more intricate and developed than we could ever hope.  True protection is trusting in God to protect us from sin and death, knowing that God will bring us through!

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