OUR PLACE OF SAFETY

 Psalm 59:16-17 NLT

But as for me I will sing about your power.

Each morning I will sing for joy

About your unfailing love.

For you have been my refuge, 

a place of safety when I am in distress.

O my Strength, to you I sing praises,

For you, O God, are my refuge,

The God who shows me unfailing love.

This psalm was written and sung by David when King Saul had sent soldiers to watch his house in order to kill him. Not your average day by any means and yet he says he’ll keep on singing about God’s power and unfailing love! I wonder if we would have done the same, or would we have paced up and down the room, looking worriedly out the window, maybe phoning a friend, and wondering what was going to happen to us at any minute?😊

David knew his God though, he reminded himself how God had always been his refuge, his safe place, and we too have the same God who is still our ‘safe place’, even more so as God is our Father. We know any good father will go to any lengths to protect his children, how much more will our God, our Father protect us!

Our verses reveal the importance of praise and how it can focus us on God instead of impending problems, or any distress we might be experiencing. I hope they make us glad we can choose to remember how powerful God is and turn our full attention on His unfailing love for us, and sing for joy today.😊

Let’s lift our praises up together to our great God who is worthy of all our praise. In Jesus name. Amen.

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