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Protection — Part 1
“For Thou art my Rock and my Fortress” (Psalm 31:3).
Protection comes in many forms. A rabbit dives for his hole, a deer runs for the dense cover of the forest, a toddler clings to his father’s pant leg or hides behind his mother’s skirt, and a soldier digs in under cover of supportive artillery. According to Proverbs 30:26, “The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks.” But what does a Christian do? And where does he hide when surrounded by danger?
David knew where to turn. When he wrote Psalm 31 things were not going very well for him. When you read the psalm, you realize that he was tired, weak, and hurting. His mind was distressed and his thoughts in a turmoil. He says, “I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief … For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed … . I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel” (verse 9-10, 12). Yet he could still say, “But I trusted in Thee, O Lord” (verse 14). This is where we too find true protection.
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