Hi there.
Well it's another day, and I know I keep saying that, but please bear with me.
As I type this, I'm not a person that has all the answers in fact far, far from it.
But tonight I want to have a good look at Psalm 5.
Again out of the good news bible.
Psalm 5 is a prayer and about protection, and we all need that in our lives.
If you think about your day, what do you do?
You go to work in your car, you obey all the road rules to get to work, you might get slightly road rage, and annoyed at the car in front of you as he just didn't indicate and just cut you off, while you are eating your MacDonalds, and listening to your iPod and texting.
We all get annoyed at people, and also sometimes at ourselves, I know I do.
So how do we view protection, why do we need a home? A car, or some other mode of transport, our families, why are we alive?
Those are pretty basic questions, but sometimes they are the most hardest to answer.
And what about our spiritual life?
How do we need protection in our spiritual life?
And are our human lives linked to our spiritual life?
Yes, I think so.
Let me give a demonstration, say your driving in your car, and you speed through the road works and don't obey the road sign to go 30 Ks PH, and you get caught by the police officer how's fault is that?
Well it's yours, because you thought you didn't need to go 30, and you can go 100 because it's an open road, etc, etc. and you can probably think of other reasons why you can speed.
The thing that I want to illustrate is this, it's not that you got caught that was the problem it was the reason that, you ignored the signs, and you thought better.
My friend are there signs in your spiritual walk, that you have been ignoring?
Perhaps you thought better, that's why we need spiritual protection.
It's when we think we can do better, without God, we can do without prayer, we can do without praying for protection, but as David says in verse 9, is that our thoughts can't be fully trusted, as much as I love my friends and family, and dogs, I am trusting them, I am fully relying on them, for the help, their encouragement, and I'm not doing this blog just to be cool either. I am doing this blog to get people into the bible.
But I know that my parents can't be there all the time, like wise my friends, and like wise dogs. So who can be trusted?
Only God, God is the only one that we can trust, God is the only one that fully understands, he understands when we mess up, and I do that all the time.
He understands when we fall short on so many things in our lives, when we can't go to church, because we are in that hard ''difficult church '' place, he understands when we find it hard to worship him, when we are in the middle of the raging storm in life.
However there is no reason to fear, there's no reason to fear my friends, no matter if the economic situation is bad for us, when everyone is in denial about it, and saying it won't effect us, we can trust our God, because we know in verse 11, and it tells us,
''But all will find safety in you will rejoice, they can always sing for joy, protect those who love you, because of you and they are truly happy, you bless those who obey you, Lord, your love protects them like a shield.''
God is the only thing we feel safe in, and do you know what? when we find that God is the safe place our hiding place, we will always sing for joy!! how amazing is that?
I find that incredible, because not only could you be scared stiff, and you freeze and you just feel overwhelmed, and you just can't move forward and you feel cold, and you know how that feels.
We feel fear so much, it's like it's a virus going around.
Well when we know God is our safe place, we will always sing for joy, now that might be now, with what we're going through you might have found your place, or making steps in the right direction, and we're singing for joy, well that's fantastic.
But we might also be in not such a good space at the moment, and the least thing we feel like doing is, singing for joy, in fact you might even think I've gone a bit loopy, yes I have I've gone loopy for God.
A friend recently ended a relationship, and everyone was asking how the person was, she came up with this reply, ''Jesus is great.''
When we give praise to God, in what we're facing we can be made stronger via the holy spirit, and when we build on that, and draw out of that strength, we can face what we're going through,
Finally, when we are blessed if we obey God, and if you feel distant from him,and can't hear him, and you are scared of that darkness of the evil around you, just bless someone with doing a kind thing, it might be using your talents, and you have heaps I don't need to give you ideas, if you have a dog, and you know someone who loves dogs or missing their dog, why not go for a walk with them, with your dog, why don't you buy someone a new person a coffee after church, and talk to them, when we bless others we feel God's love and it protects us like shield, When we reach out to others it pleases God, it gives him pleasure, and yes you go get a gold star on your star chart in heaven.
A reward.
Well it's getting late, and my holiday has sadly come to an end, back in home soon.
Chloe
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