I have 6 days until surgery. For the next week, I’m going to record verses on this post so I can print it up and take it with me to the hospital. Feel free to add some verses in the comment section, I’ll take those with me too. Khalil is flying in today. Can’t wait for him to be here. Made a valence for my kitchen last night and it doesn’t look right. I think I need to go to the fabric store and just pick a pattern.
I ran across Psalm 91 last night. At first I started to memorize verse 1 but as I read the whole chapter I loved it. Don’t you love the way David shares his heart in the Psalms? What man do you know would admit he cries in his bed until the sheets are soaked with his tears? I love how he shares his struggles and then comes back to the Goodness and Strength of God. He doesn’t share his depressing story and then walk away to drain all your energy for the day. David puts our eyes back on Christ by meditating on Christ’s character and the things God has done for him in the past. He shares his weakness, but that is not the focus of the Psalms; it’s the Character and Goodness of God. Read Psalms 91 this morning and be strengthened in Your God as I have been.
Psalm 91
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence.
He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day,
nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.
A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.
You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked.
If you make the Most High your dwelling— even the LORD, who is my refuge-
then no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your tent.
For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways;
they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
You will tread upon the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent.
“Because he loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him.
With long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation.”
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