Under His Wings

“To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you
before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy—to the
only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through
Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore!
Jude 24

How many of you remember that commercial about the lifeline
device where a elderly lady falls and then pushes on this device
and says I have fallen and I cannot get up. Although these circumstances
are not funny, over the years many have used that phrase in various
ways to find humor in their circumstances.

I was thinking tonight about the times we feel like we have fallen and
cannot get up. When we become so weary that we feel like we cannot
take another step.

The times when our heart cries out within us, oh God help me,
I don't know which way to go. I feel lost, I need comfort, I need direction,
I need help!

Have you ever felt lost in your own world? As if it was unfamiliar and
strange? The times when your circumstances seem so hard and lonely
you almost feel like you are living in a alternate universe? Because it
seems like unfamiliar territory.

I am here today to declare to you, that you are human, and these feelings
happen to all of us. But when we fall, and feel we cannot get up God says:

We have troubles all around us, but we are not defeated.
We do not know what to do, but we do not give up the hope of living. We
are persecuted, but God does not leave us. We are hurt sometimes but we
are not destroyed. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 NCV

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of
the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, "My refuge and my fortress in my God
in whom I trust." For He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler,
and from the deadly pestilence, He will cover you with his pinions (wings),
and under His wings you will find refuge, his faithfulness as a shield
and buckler. Psalm 91:1-4 ESV

My friends, God said He will hide you under the shadow of His wings,
like a mother bird does to her babies, we are hidden, covered,
and protected. But we have to abide there, and trust Him,
and not be afraid. We have to cling to, rely on, find strength and hope in
Christ.

We cannot allow our circumstances to rule our thinking.

We must allow the promises of God to be our shield and buckler.
Our defense, our hope, our strength, our comfort.

We are never alone. You are not facing your circumstances without
your heavenly Father, He said He would never leave us or forsake us!
Cling to Him, abide under his wings, until it is safe to come out
and face this world again, with renewed vigor and strength from
time alone in the presence of your Father God.

For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.


Isaiah 25:4

He is not only able to keep us from falling, but to present us faultless
before the throne of God as we close in with Him, daily, grow
closer, surrender our problems and our will, and abide under His
wings, in His strength, and cling to His promises, speaking his
word and finding comfort in it.

Just trust, and abide under the Shadow of the Almighty,
where you are safe and cared for.

Love always
millie


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God's Wings

A little something to put things in perspective...

An article in National Geographic several years ago provided an interesting picture of God's wings. After a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park, forest rangers began their trek up a mountain to assess the inferno's damage.

One ranger found a bird literally petrified in ashes, perched statuesquely on the ground at the base of a tree. Somewhat sickened by the eerie sight, he knocked over the bird with a stick.

When he gently struck it, three tiny chicks scurried from under their dead mother's wings.

The loving mother, keenly aware of impending disaster, had carried her offspring to the base of the tree and had gathered them under her wings, instinctively knowing that the toxic smoke would rise.

She could have flown to safety but had refused to abandon her babies. Then the blaze had arrived and the heat had scorched her small body, the mother had remained steadfast. Because she had been willing to die, so those under the cover of her wings would live.

"He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge." (Psalm 91:4)