Where do you turn for protection? Where is your place of refuge? Who do you run to when things go sideways? Who do you rely on to be your support? Who has taught you the good things you know? Where have you learned the difference between right and wrong?
Some of us like to think we can take care of ourselves. We like to think we don’t need protection. We like to think we don’t need anyone else. That is our pridefulness speaking. It is our false sense of bravado. We cannot take on the dark forces of the world on our own.
We also like to think we are good. We may have been taught to say, “Yes, sir” or “Yes, ma’am,” be kind to others, and give to charities, but that doesn’t make us good. All of us retain a mean streak within us. It is just a matter of the right buttons being pushed to reveal it. We all disobey God at different times. We have our favorite sins that we don’t want to give up.
God is our only hope. It is God who protects us. It is in him we need to take refuge. It is in him we need to place our trust. Only by God working in us and through us that we are good. It is not our good but his good. He is the only one who can overcome our sinful nature.
When we put our trust and confidence in God, our lives change. We become people who are not only confident but become the person God wants us to be. For it is his good that makes us good and guides us along the path he wants us to walk. The more we surrender to God, the better our lives become.
I pray we all seek God’s protection. I pray we take refuge in God. I pray each one of us realize God is the only good within us and decide to put our trust and confidence in him. Seek God’s protection. Take refuge in God. Know that only God is good. Put your trust in God.
Psalm 16:1-2
Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge.
I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;
I have no good apart from you.”
Marty Pressey 