I’m spending a couple days meditating on four thoughts found in Psalm 97:10-12. Psalm 97 begins with the declaration “The LORD is King!”
Verse 10 reminds us first that “You who love the LORD, hate evil,” and continues “[The LORD] protects the lives of his godly people and rescues them from the power of the wicked.” [NLT]
Repeatedly in the Scriptures we are promised protection and rescue but exactly what does that mean? Does it mean we will never face opposition, never experience difficulties, or always live a trial-free life? What about Christians that are persecuted or martyred? And did not Jesus Himself promise that “Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows.” [John 16:33 NLT]
Those kinds of questions have existed for millennia.
Jesus said, “you will,” not “you might” have many trials and sorrows. But He also promised that He “told you all this so that you may have peace in me,” and that we can take heart because He has “overcome the world.”
Whatever we may face, whatever trials and sorrows, opposition or even persecution we may face in this world, we have the promise of eternal protection and rescue. We are going to a place where wickedness and evil will have no entrance. Amen & Amen
