TFTD: Wednesday
Psalm 16.1 “Keep me safe, O God, for in you I take refuge.”
This is an arrow prayer, a one liner that goes straight to the point. There’s no waiting patiently in this prayer, just the need of the moment, and that instinctive turning in faith to the One who is our refuge. By the way, when we pray this prayer, and turn to God for protection in the emergency of feeling threatened, that makes us refugees in the arms of God. The theme of refuge, and of care for the refugee, is dyed into the fabric of the Bible, from Abraham to the Exodus, to the Exiles, and the flight from Herod to Egypt. Before God we are all refugees, looking for a place to find safety.
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