I have to share with you a thought God allowed me to share with our church during our Wednesday night service...

Psalms 18:2 is a verse from a praise psalm where David is thanking God for getting him out of a tough situation. King Saul was after David's life and God spared him. You thought you were having a bad day, try having a king running after you wanting your head on a platter.

And in this psalm, David used several words to describe God. He said things like: "my strength" "my rock" "my fortress (security)" "my deliverer" is his description of what God did for him.

But the one I like is where he called God his SHIELD.
You see God is looking out for you during every turn of your life. We think He only shows up when we get in a tight situation or when we mess up and start crying out to Him. The truth is, He never leaves us nor forsakes us and isn't that what He promised?

You need to thank Him today for being your shield in that He is watching over you when those trials seem to try and overtake you. Realize those trials had to first go through the hand of God so He already knows all about it.

But what about those times in your life that you don't know about. When you could have been the one in the wreck but God put a delay in your life that kept you four cars back. Or it should have been you that received the bad news of the company shutting down but God had already moved you to another place to protect you. What you thought was a bad thing in having to switch jobs turned out to be the best thing because of what happened later.

That is just simply God being your SHIELD.

Prayer: "God, Thank you for protecting me from the things that I saw coming but also those many times in my life when you kept me from falling into a place I didn't even realize was there."