By Pastor Don Schatz

A Safe Place

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“For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his temple.”
Psalm 27:5. New International Version

Safety and security are a significant concern.  It used to be that those issues were raised mainly by politicians in election season.  Not so much these days.  Concern for safety and security seems to be always on our minds.  In person and remotely via smart phones and the Internet, it is oh so easy to feel threatened.  To feel unsafe.  Insecure.

Perhaps your house is like ours with cameras and other devices.  Even our church building has a security system and exterior cameras.  Today, I am thinking about spiritual security.  In the day of trouble, King David said, the Lord will keep us safe in his temple.  The ultimate Safe Place.

It has been my experience that a sense of inner safety, secure in the nurture and knowledge of our God, affects my sense of security in other areas.  Emotional, psychological, relational, and even physical safety can be blessed by the safety of our Heavenly Father’s arms.  In part, that is because worry and anxiety can do everything from raise our blood pressure to causing us to forget those Fatherly arms.  Remember them today.  Feel the Lord protecting you with his Word so that you can spot spiritual danger and defeat it.  Know the Lord’s promise of Guardian Angels.  When the ‘temple’ of the Lord seems like a vague concept, remember that the Holy Spirit makes you a Temple of the Living God.

Breathe deeply today.  Breathe in the Spirit of God as you are blessed by the reading of Scripture.  Exhale just as deeply, conscious of the Lord who gives us breath.  Have you done it yet?  Oh, you thought I was being metaphorical?  Not so much.  Well, not only!  We are whole beings, after all.

I want safety for you.  I want you to know the security of Life in the Temple of the Lord.  His Temple is his grace, his mercy, his Brotherly Love, his Spiritual Breath, his Fatherly arms.  And not a camera in sight.

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