Let Jesus protect you

"If you make the LORD your refuge, if you make the Most High your shelter, 10 no evil will conquer you; no plague will come near your home."   Psalm 91:9-10   NLT

With all of the disasters that are happening in our world today - fires, floods and whatever else, it is difficult for someone involved in all of it, to accept this word. If you try, you may hear, 'If God loves us, why has He allowed all of this heartache to happen to us?.' The answer to this is, 'I don't know'. In fact, there is no feasible answer. However, if we as Christians, adopt this attitude then we are limiting God and agreeing with the world. Look at our text again, the Psalmist wrote, 'If you make the LORD your refuge, if you make the Most High your shelter.' Can you see it?

There is a proviso here; rather like we have to ask Jesus into our lives before we are 'saved', then we also have to put Him in charge of everything in our life and call on Him when we need Him. This is not a once in a life action either, we need to be committing everything and every day to Jesus. God says: 'I will rescue those who love Me. I will protect those who trust in My name. 15 When they call on Me, I will answer; I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and honour them' Psalm 91:14-15  NLT.

I'm not saying these terrible disasters happen because people don't know Jesus - not at all. I'm also sure that many of the people who have suffered this way have been Christians. I am also not defending God. We have a relationship with Jesus; therefore, He is interested in what we do each day. If we go for a drive, He wants to protect us, if we fly away on holiday, the same applies. 'Commit everything you do to the LORD. Trust Him and He will help you'  Psalm 37:5. Please note, the 'everything' here means everything.

We must remember there is a devil and, he will bring total devastation wherever he can. God will not intervene unless we ask for His help and protection. We can't just sit back and assume that God will be there for us if we are not in communication with Him. If we have a relationship with Him, He wants us to share with Him on a daily basis. This is why we pray The Lord's Prayer and put on the whole armour of God each day. 

Whatever you do, do it with Jesus, allow Him your day and ask Him to take care of you. Make Him the centre of your life, trusting Him with every beat of your heart.

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