Continuing in Psalm 84 - Nov. 1998 - Scriptures personalized by me
11a FOR THE LORD GOD IS A SUN AND SHIELD:
Lord, thank-You for the sunshine on this beautiful Sabbath morning, and thank-You that You are the "SUNSHINE" of my life! You have commanded Your "light" to shine through my darkness, and this "light" has been the "entrance of THY WORDS". (II Cor. 4:6, Ps. 18:28, Ps.
119:130) Without the sun, there can be no physical life; without Thee, there can be no spiritual life!
As the sun warms up the earth, so have You "warmed" up our hearts to spiritual things. As the sun causes things to grow and to be fruitful, so we can bear "fruit" for Your glory when You have become the "SUNSHINE" of our lives!
Job said in 30:28, "I went mourning without the sun." Surely we, too, would go mourning without the SON.
Lord, God Almighty, God of TRUTH, Your TRUTH is our shield. (Ps. 91:4) You say to us, "Every WORD of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him." (Prov. 30:5) Yes, Your Word is our protection from all the fiery darts of the wicked one! Your "truth
shall be our shield and buckler...We shall not be afraid...For You shall give Your angels charge over us, to keep us in ALL our ways." (Ps 91:4b, 5a, 11)
11b THE LORD WILL GIVE GRACE AND GLORY:
O Lord, what a wonderful promise! You WILL give us GRACE - grace to love You, grace to obey You, grace to "keep on keepin' on"! And You will give us GLORY and honor us, and then we shall say "All glory goes to Thee" for YOU have given us the grace to obey. "For it is God
which worketh in us both to will and to do of His good pleasure." (Phil.2:13)
Remember this was written in Nov. 1998-
Lord, several days have passed since all the "scary" things that happened day after day last week...and THEN...the accident...but You HAVE given GRACE! Surely You HAVE been our SHIELD! WHY, O Lord... why didn't I fall apart when the man came to the door and said "Your husband has been in an accident"? After verifying that my dear husband was at the hospital emergency room, the normally scared, fearful me jumped into the van and chatted about salvation all the way to the hospital. I'm still "stunned" by my response. You know
I'm not like that, Lord! It must have been YOU! My natural response would have been worry and intense fear that he was DEAD, but somehow YOU gave me faith that he was still alive. Passing the crash site, the infamous intersection with no stop signs of which I had
repeatedly asked the city and county to do something about, and seeing our van lying out in the field ,was difficult... but how thankful I was to see that the truck had hit him from the passenger side instead of his side. How thankful I was to know that none of the children were in the van with him! I was relieved to hear the officer say that he walked after the crash, although I found out soon enough that it was the other man who walked. I'm sure it was
YOUR doing that the officer made the "mistake", for I would have been horribly struck with fear if I had known the real facts - that he was having trouble breathing and could not move himself. My poor husband is in horrible pain in the hospital right now with a fractured
vertebrae in his back, and my eyes filled with tears this morning as I longed to be with him once again and hold his hand. Somehow give me STRENGTH today to go again, and please give me STRENGTH to take care of a totally bed-ridden husband for weeks after they bring him home. You know it's just a sick person with no transportation taking care of a sick person with a broken back. Lord, I need Your HELP! Thank-You so much for this verse!
11c NO GOOD THING WILL HE WITHHOLD FROM THEM THAT WALK UPRIGHTLY.
Thank-You, Lord, for this beautiful promise! Surely this is another one of our "valleys of Baca", but it is a "good thing". I'm trusting You, Lord, to work BEAUTIFUL things in our lives because of this. Especially give us the "good things" of Your Spirit! Hallelujah!
12 O LORD OF HOSTS, BLESSED IS THE MAN THAT TRUSTETH IN THEE.
Give me grace, Lord, to TRUST in Thee, and I shall be BLESSED! Thank- You, Lord! In Jesus' name. Amen!
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