Psalm 91:9-10

Continuing in Psalm 91-

9-10 BECAUSE THOU HAST MADE THE LORD WHICH IS MY REFUGE, EVEN THE MOST HIGH, THY HABITATION; THERE SHALL NO EVIL BEFALL THEE, NEITHER SHALL ANY PLAGUE COME NIGH THY DWELLING.

Lord, if I make You my HOME, no adversity or calamity or plague shall touch me. Lord, I know this is true in a spiritual sense. "All things work together for GOOD to them that love God..." (Rom. 8:28) But can I take this verse literally, too? Lord, increase my faith as I
meditate on this verse- "Put on the whole armor of God...Above all, taking the shield of FAITH, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked." (Eph. 6:11a, 16)

Thank You, Lord, for stories like these which DO increase my faith: Spurgeon says, "In the year 1854,...the neighbourhood in which I laboured was visited by Asiatic cholera...and almost every day I was called to visit the grave. My friends seemed falling one by one, and I felt or fancied that I was sickening like those around me...As God would have it, I was returning mournfully home from a funeral, when my curiosity led me to read a paper which was wafered up in a shoemaker's window...it bore in a good bold handwriting these words: 'BECAUSE THOU HAST MADE THE LORD, WHICH IS MY REFUGE, EVEN THE MOST HIGH, THY HABITATION; THERE SHALL NO EVIL BEFALL THEE, NEITHER SHALL ANY PLAGUE COME NIGH THY DWELLING.' The effect of my heart was immediate. Faith appropriated the passage as her own. I went on with my visitation of the dying in a calm and peaceful spirit; I felt no fear, and I suffered no harm..."

"The psalmist in these verses assures the man who dwells in God that he shall be secure. Though faith claims no merit of its own, yet the Lord rewards it wherever he sees it. He who MAKES God his refuge shall find him a refuge; he who dwells in God shall find his dwelling
protected. We must MAKE the Lord our habitation by choosing him for our trust and rest, and then we shall receive immunity from harm; no evil shall touch us personally, and no stroke of judgment shall assail our household...

It is impossible that any ill should happen to the man who is beloved of the Lord; the most crushing calamities can only shorten his journey and hasten him to his reward. Ill to him is no ill, but only good in a mysterious form. Losses enrich him, sickness is his medicine, reproach is his honour, death is his gain. No evil in the strict sense of the word can happen to him, for everything is overruled for good. Happy is he who is in such a case. He is secure
where others are in peril, he lives where others die."

-Quotes by Spurgeon