"He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." (Psalm 91:1)
I first committed this Psalm to memory when I was smuggling Bibles into communist East Europe in the 1970s and 80s. Over the years I was a part of teams taking thousands of Bibles to the persecuted Church. On one mission in 1982, we were approaching a relatively remote Romanian-Yugoslavian border crossing. As we came around a cut in the mountains, a huge guard tower loomed in the distance. It was the largest I had ever seen. Its purpose was clear-------- intimidation! Our text, however, written on my heart, loomed larger. The "secret place" and "shadow of the Almighty" is the only unassailable place for the Believer in Jesus Christ. Where did the power to "break through" come from that day in September, 1982? It came then, and keeps coming, from the "God-Breathed" Word in Jesus Christ.
So many people claim that they don't read the Word because they don't understand it, or what is even more scandalous, they "don't get anything out of it!" If you find yourself at times loosing this battle, let me encourage you with something. Read and confess out loud the Words of the Blessed Trinity. Let the mind understand what it can, but don't let that bottleneck keep you from the life-giving, sustaining power of the Word of God Himself, Jesus Christ. Psalm 119:130 says, "The entrance of Your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple." The word for, "entrance," (NKJV) or "unfolding," (NASB), means, "doorway; opening." The Word of God is the "doorway" to "understanding." It is the "entrance" first; then whatever "understanding" we can handle will come. If your concept of understanding keeps you from the "entrance of [His] words," cursed be that understanding!
Father, in Jesus' Name, I look too much for understanding. Help me to look more for the "opening" of Your "Doorway." Amen.
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