#DailyDevotion Cling To God In Love & Know His Name
Psalm 91 9If you have made the LORD, who is my Refuge, the Most High, your Home, 10He will not let any harm come to you or disaster come near your home, 11because He orders His angels to be with you and protect you everywhere you go. 12They will carry you in their hands and not let you stub your foot against a stone. 13You will step on a lion or a cobra and trample on a young lion or a serpent.
Quite a promise. Chances are, we don’t always make the LORD our Refuge and our Home, which is why we get into so much trouble. Of course there are also those times when we do, the LORD tests us to purify and strengthen our faith. I think overall, the LORD does do this. We have no idea how many arrows of the adversary are pointed and shot at us throughout the day and the LORD sends His holy angels to guard and protect us. This is one of those passages that teach we have guardian angels who look after us. I’m pretty sure while growing up I must have had a legion looking after me. I was such a mess.
There weren’t too many lions living around me, though there were black panthers, alligators, water moccasins and copperheads. Who knows how many were kept from biting me in the woods or taking a chunk out of me while swimming in the bayous.
Here again we have those words, machseh-Refuge and mâ‛ı̂yn-Home or Dwelling place. The LORD really wants us to take these words to heart and look to Him as such in every aspect of our lives. In all things, He wants to be our God. But we are not to test Him with these promises. The devil tried to use this verse to tempt Jesus to fall from the pinnacle of the temple to prove He was the Son of God, in whom these promises are most manifest in. Jesus refused to be tempted to test the LORD’s promises here. We are called just to live out our daily lives trusting in Jesus for all good things and living our life because He does not lie.
14“Because he clings to Me in love, I will rescue him and put him in a safe high place, because he knows My name. 15When he calls Me, I will answer him, be with him in trouble, rescue him, and honor him. 16With a long life I will satisfy him; and have him drink his fill of My salvation.”
The LORD responds in these verses having heard Moses’ words which precede. Jesus is the fulfillment of these words. He is the one who clings to the LORD in love. He is the one who knows the LORD’s name. He is the one who called upon the LORD when He was in trouble, that is crucified, dead and buried and who was rescued from the grave by resurrecting Him to eternal life seating Him at His right hand.
When we are baptized into Christ Jesus and we cling to Him in love, know, we too have been placed by the LORD in the heavenly places (Eph. 2). Through faith in Jesus we begin to know the name of the LORD which is mercy, kindness, steadfast love, forgiveness and discipline when we sin. Our Father in heaven hears us when we call upon him and answers our prayers, rescues and honors us just as He did to His Only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ. He will resurrect us from the grave on the Last Day and give eternal life to us. He will bring us into that Promised Land, the New Heavens and New Earth where righteousness reigns. This is not a promise to not have crosses, trials and tribulations in our lives—Jesus has promised we will share in His suffering in this life. However, just as He was gloried we too shall be gloried. They will have no long lasting effects upon us when we make the LORD our Refuge and Home.
Heavenly Father, ever give us the faith of Jesus that we may make You our Home and Refuge, that we may love and cling to You in all our life, that we may see Your promises to us in Christ Jesus fulfilled when we are raised from the dead even as He was raised from the dead. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.