Devotion:
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Read Psalms 91:1-2.
Psalm 91 is part of a group of Psalms that remind us of God’s eternity, God’s sovereignty, and God’s watchfulness over our lives. They also remind us of how God cares personally about us. The first verse says, “You who live in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the shadow of the Almighty,” followed by the response “I will say to the Lord, ‘My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” (Psalm 91:1-2 NRSV). This beginning dialogue sets the tone for how God wants to relate with us. God’s care and concern are mutual with us. The writer of this Psalm, King David, is writing out of his own personal experience of a long and eventful life with God. David has had a life of great promise, great tragedy and great disappointment. But through it all he has learned that God watched over him, even in David’s darkest moments.
Psalm 91 is a reminder that God will watch over us as well.
Andre Crouch wrote a great hymn in 1971 called “Through It All.” (UMH 507) Let its words be our prayer, “Through it all, through it all, I’ve learned to trust in Jesus, I’ve learned to trust in God; Through it all, through it all, I’ve learned to depend upon God’s word.”
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