God’s Protection

Two Blogs in one week! This is new for me. :)
 
Due to some things that happened today my mind has been on the protection that is placed over me every day that I take for granted. There was snow! Lots of snow! Maybe not to people who live north of here but for southern Ontario it was a decent amount of snow. Because we don’t see snow like this much we don’t know how to drive in it and because of that all we can do is trust the Lord to help us.

My mom took my grandma down to Cambridge this morning. There was a person that just stopped right on the expressway in front of her leaving everyone behind them to swerve around the stopped car just missing an accident. My cousin was rear ended in front of our laneway but was alright. Another cousin was in a 90 car pileup on his way out to Ottawa but is also ok. So how is it that tonight I am not grieving the loss of any family members? It is by the grace and protection of my God who is watching over us, not only in snow storms, but every day! It just takes a snow storm every now and then to remind us just how much he cares and how powerful he is.

We will never know how much God has protected us or what he has all protected us from. We don’t know if being a bit late for something might have been Him keeping us from driving through an intersection while someone ran a red light. We don’t know if He made it rain so that we didn’t go to the beach on a day that the waves were going to be too intense for our young ones to handle. There are all kinds of things that He may do. All things have a purpose and we don’t need to know what those purposes are. We just need to trust and remember that God is in control and will take care of us if we let Him. I thank God for His protection over me and my family!

Numerous Psalms come to mind when I think of God protecting me.

Psalm 18:2

The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Psalm 37:28

For the LORD loves the just and will not forsake his faithful ones. They will be protected forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off;

Psalm 40:11

Do not withhold your mercy from me, O LORD; may your love and your truth always protect me.

Psalm 91:14

"Because he loves me," says the LORD, "I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.

 

 

 

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