God's Protection

It would be great if our life was always fun and games. But alas, it just is not so. When life is fun, we think about how good the Lord has been to us. However, we sometimes forget that when circumstances are not in our favor. Yet the Lord is still looking after us. Even in the darkest of days and the most difficult of circumstances the Lord is on our side.

There is yet another time we overlook God’s protecting hand. It is when things in our life are not bad or good, they are “just there.” You know what I mean. You are just living your life. You are going to work, attending church, talking to friends, buying groceries, gassing up the car, etc., etc., etc. We do not always think about God’s guiding and protecting hand in those situations.

On occasion, the Lord has sent me reminders of exactly that. In the spring of 1992, I was given two such reminders very quickly. My youngest daughter Lori Beth and I were driving to the grocery store when a small truck came completely across the road in front of us, tearing down a stone fence and slamming into a tree. The two young men in the vehicle were seriously injured. I was the first one to them. They were in need of professional attention, which they received in short order.

The very next day, during a violent rainstorm, a young woman passed me on the freeway. She was traveling at an excessive rate of speed for any conditions, for these it was downright fool hardy. She lost control of her automobile, made two complete revolutions in front of me and hopped onto the median. She was barely injured.

In each instance, I was totally unharmed, but was quickly made to remember how often the Lord protects us in the course of our day. The protection is not usually this dramatic, thankfully – but it is always there.

Are you “just living your life?” That's okay. The Lord has his guiding and protecting hand over you even in the everyday occurrences of your life. It may not seem like much, but you are important enough that the Lord has his shield of protection surrounding you. Like Job of old, nothing can come your way without the Lord allowing it. It may not seem good, but the One who has all authority is in control, even in the “just living” situations of life.