House of David, Season 2: Trusting God in the Middle of the StorySample

Safety in His Presence

Where is your functional trust? Not where you say you trust, but where you go when your back is against the wall. What you depend on when you don’t know what to do. Where do you go when all seems lost? That’s where your trust really is.

“Am I safe?” is one of the greatest and most common questions of the human soul. And the Psalmist wants you to know there’s a safe place for you to abide. Yet what the writer describes in Psalm 91 seems a million miles from safe. There are bird traps, night terror, arrows flying overhead, pestilence, destruction, and yet they’re still safe. How? It’s all about where they decided to trust, where they decided to run to, who they decided to depend on.

They didn’t depend on themselves, a substance, a person, or a provision - but the Protector of the ages, God Almighty. Does God have your trust? You know whether or not He does or doesn’t based not on what you confess, but on where you turn. There is safety in His presence, and you can trust that to always be true.

Reflection Question: When life feels unsafe, where do you instinctively run?