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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Psalms 91:1-16
If thankfulness for the past (Psalms 90:1-17) is the feeling which should characterize us, the feeling which should be uppermost in us for the future is faith in God. There are great moral dangers which threaten the believer. Who is the fowler (v. 3), the lion, the adder and the dragon . . . (v. 13) if not Satan himself? "The pestilence . . . that walketh in darkness" (vv. 3, 6) speaks to us of sin, something far more serious than an illness. "The arrow that flieth by day" (v. 5) suggests such evil thoughts which suddenly come to us quite unexpectedly through something we have seen in the street, read in a book or from dubious conversation. The "terrors of the night" are worries which often stop us from enjoying the peaceful sleep which the Lord has prepared for us (Psalms 4:8). Whatever the trap or threat, we have a fortress, a refuge: God Almighty Himself (vv. 1, 2, 9). Let us follow the example of the One who, in the midst of similar dangers, showed this faith perfectly. Christ in the wilderness knew how to confound and bind the Tempter who had dared to quote this psalm. From v. 9 onwards God’s promises come in response to the prayer of the perfect Man. We can also enjoy these promises to the extent that we are prepared, like the Lord Jesus, to put our faith and our "love" in God (v. 14).
