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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.
Psalm 137
is a fairly depressing psalm. The
psalmist is in captivity under the Babylonians.
As a trained musician, he is asked to perform. Yet he doesn’t feel like performing because
he is in captivity and sorrowful because he would rather be free in his own
land. This moment of sorrow brings the
psalmist to a place of asking God to remember them and watch over them until
they have been vindicated.
Psalm 138
is written several centuries prior to Psalm 137. It is a psalm of David. As David looks at his life, he realizes the
reasons that he has to give glory to God.
Chief among those reasons is the protection that he has felt throughout
his life. David might walk in the shadow
of trouble. Who among us doesn’t? But when David walks in the shadow of trouble
he remembers the security of the Lord who walks with him.
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