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He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Psalms 91:1
I know that most people despise mowing, but I absolutely love it. Mowing is one of my favorite private times with the Lord. As I was mowing my grass yesterday for the first time this season, something became abundantly clear to me. Every time I made a pass under this large ash tree, the lawnmower would get bogged down and die. Every. Single. Time. It got choked out.
It was almost like God was saying, “STOP and take notice of this!” I looked at how tall, green, thick, and lush the grass was that was growing in the shade of that big old ash tree. The verse above immediately popped into my mind. I got chills as the whole verse was brought to the forefront of my memory. “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” Wow!
What a wonderful concept about the safety and security that is provided when we sit down and rest under the covering of the Most High God, His word tells us that we can live under the shadow of the Almighty. How comforting to know that we can sit down and we can rest under the shade of our Abba Father. When we are abiding in His will we can stay there and rest, knowing that He protects us from the drenching rains, from the damaging hail, from intense scorching heat of the sun. We can live there; we can grow there; and we can flourish under His shadow.
Living in the shadow of the Most High doesn’t mean that the storms won’t come. They will. They will beat heavily around us, but we have the promise that the storms and trials of life will not damage us. They cannot destroy us. They cannot break us. They cannot kill us. Why? Because we are resting in the shadow of the Most High, because we are under his mighty arm of protection. What a comforting promise from our Almighty God!
The Spreading Love & Hope Challenge this week is: Are you beaten down by the rains of life? Are you being scorched by the sun because you are out from under the protection of His mighty arms? If you are not living in God’s will, in the Shadow of the Most High, reach out to someone to pray with you, to mentor you, to help bring you back into His secret place? If you are walking in God’s will and resting in the peace and security His shadow provides, as the storms of life beat around you, use this opportunity to reach out to someone else today who is struggling, pray with them, mentor them, and help them learn to live and rest in the shadow of the Most High.
