Our Daily Bread Devotional for Friday 9 June 2023 Titled Our Place of Safety
The topic for today’s Our Daily Bread devotional is titled Our Place of Safety for today Friday 9 June 2023 for your spiritual development and wellbeing. share with a friend.
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Our Daily Bread Devotional Bible Verse
The Lord watches over you—the Lord is your shade at your right hand. – Psalm 121:5
Today’s Scripture & Insight: Psalm 121
Our Daily Bread Devotional for Friday 9 June 2023 Titled Our Place of Safety
Retired teacher Debbie Stephens Browder is on a mission to convince as many people as possible to plant trees. The reason? Heat. Extreme heat in the United States is the number one weather-related cause of death. In response, she says, “I’m starting with trees.” The canopy of heat protection that trees provide is one significant way to protect communities. “It’s life or death. It’s not just about beautifying the community.”
The fact that shade isn’t just refreshing but potentially lifesaving would have been well known to the psalmist who wrote Psalm 121; in the Middle East, the risk of sunstroke is constant. This reality adds depth to the psalm’s vivid description of God as our surest place of safety, the One in whose care “the sun will not harm [us] by day, nor the moon by night” (v. 6).
This verse can’t mean that believers in Jesus are somehow immune to pain or loss in this life (or that heat isn’t dangerous!). After all, Christ tells us, “In this world you will have trouble” (John 16:33). But this metaphor of God as our shade does vividly reassure us that, whatever comes our way, our lives are held in His watchful care (Psalm 121:7–8). There we can find rest through trusting Him, knowing that nothing can separate us from His love (John 10:28; Romans 8:39). By: Monica La Rose
Bible in a Year: 2 Chronicles 32–33, John 18:19–40
Our Daily Bread Devotional for Friday 9 June 2023 || Reflect & Pray
How have you experienced life-saving shade in God’s care? How does remembering you’re always held in His care give you courage?
Loving God, thank You for being my place of shade and safety. Help me to find rest and courage as I grow in trusting You.
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