MEDITATIONS
FROM THE PSALMS
February 27, 2008
Reading: Psalm 91:9-13
“For He shall give His angels
charge over you” Psalm 91:11
Last week’s TFTW was
unique in one special way in that I have received more responses from it than
any other over the eight years of sending them out. For those of you who missed
it you can read it from my website at onhisshoulders.com/TFTW archives. It
concerned prayer and how God answers-sometimes immediately at othertimes after
a period of time. I was particularly blessed by an email I received from a
brother who has been a great help to me for many years and I would like to
share it with you.
“Brother Dave. Your report on your
prayer experience is certainly interesting, as well as the questions you ask
about God's various ways and times of answering our prayers. I guess immediate answers can be rather
shocking as we just can't believe that God is really answering one of our
petitions so immediately. Only scripture
that comes to mind is simply " He cares for you," and is pleased to show you so in this
manner. My experiences of His immediacy
is in angelic interventions. Every time
I review some of my life's experiences I come up with the singular and simple
observation that God has sent His angels to preserve my body intact. The last experience of this nature was last
February when a tree fell directly in the path of my pickup and I collided with
it just as it hit the ground. Instead of a head on crash, my pickup was hurled
into the air and was in the process of making a complete 360 degree revolution
in the air but did touch down on one corner of the cab demolishing the right
side of the cab and windshield. It then continued its course completing the the
360 and landing hard on all four wheels on the pavement. I was belted in which
helped but I was completely untouched. The motor was still running and I just
unbuckled my belt, opened the door and stepped
out just as if I had parked it there. In reflection, I realized that I
had come to a complete stop from
And these are only the things
that we experience and see or feel. How
many are the deliverances from the powers of darkness that go on unknown to us. The fact that He cares for us (Thy rod and
thy staff, they comfort me) is the ongoing comfort.”
I know that many of us
can say “Amen” to that as we look back over our lifetime and see how God has
protected us in miraculous ways when the enemy would do us harm. It makes me
realize more and more that our demise comes only when it is our Heavenly Father's
time. Until then we are protected and must believe that He still has a purpose
for us to remain here in this life. I often think of the many times
doctors/surgeons have said I have a few moments, days, a month, a year left to
live. Only the other day my doctor said, "I’m really not sure why you are
still alive!" I told her, "I do." She is a Believer and we have
often shared the things of the Lord.
As I mention in my book, the number of times
during World War II when I was a child the Lord kept my mother and I from harm.
How many accidents could have taken my life? Whether it be accident, illness,
or any other attempt of the enemy to thwart the will of God, until it is His
planned time for us to leave this life and join Him in glory, He will protect
us, sometimes miraculously, sometimes mysteriously, but if we belong to Him
through the miracle of salvation, we can always be assured that we are in His
arms. Yes, God does care for us in innumerable and various ways, many of which
we are unaware.
"The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting
arms; He will thrust out the enemy from before you" Deuteronomy 33:27.