In the Shelter of the Most High – EP41
Psalm 91:1-2
Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
Hello welcome back to the One Thing Podcast, I'm excited to share with you a scripture from the book of Psalms chapter 91, verses 1 and 2. Its says that whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress my God in whom I trust.
This is a wonderful scripture speaking about dwelling in God's shelter, in the secret place of God where we find stability where we are fixed and kept safe.
"What is the secret place of the Most High?"But what is it that we are kept safe from, how is God a refuge, what does it mean that God is our fortress? There are a number of ways, first off we know that apart form God we are perishing in our sin. You know, the true shelter of God is found in faith of the lord Jesus Christ. He is the one that brings us to the Father and covers us in his goodness and in his love. But apart from Christ we are left open. You see, sin is chaotic, this world is chaotic and unless we are dwelling with the lord Jesus Christ that chaos enters our life.
We are not stable. Sin causes our mind to just be restless, sin causes everything within us too be shaken and to tremble because that's what sin is is. It's not stable it is lost it is broken because sin is simply with out God.
"Where do we want to be found when God judges our lives?"Secondly we know that God judges sin and where do we want to be found when God judges our lives, when He judges this world? Do we want to be found in the refuge of the Lord Jesus Christ as He is our fortress or do we want to be found in our own strength which is really no strength at all?
So it says that whoever dwells in the shelter of the most high God... really it is those who put their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. We come into the secret place of God. We can find stability, we can find hope, we can find protection.
"He makes His shelter within us..."And as we come to Christ our great hope is this...is that He comes in and He makes His shelter within us. That's right Jesus alive in me, Christ in me the hope of glory. You see, when we turn to the Lord Jesus there is hope because God shines His favor down upon us. His favor is protection, His favor is hope, His favor is renewal...that we no longer live a life of sin apart from God but we come into the new life found in Christ. Where we go from glory to glory we overcome those things that look to hold us back, we overcome this world!
"Will you rest in the shadow of the Almighty?"We are now able to no longer have to live in obligation to our flesh, to our sin, but we can now live in the kingdom of our God over coming in deliverance. And deliverance not only for ourselves but delivering others into the kingdom of light out of the darkness into the light.
So will you find shelter in the most high? Will you rest in the shadow of the Almighty? Will you today begin to say He is my refuge and my strength, my God in whom I trust.
May we look to the Lord Jesus Christ today, may we not look on our own shelter our weak shelters that fall under the judgment of God. May we be found in the everlasting shelter of the lord Jesus Christ.
Thank you God that you are the shelter of the most high in which we find refuge.