“If you say the Lord is my refuge, and you make the Most High your dwelling, no harm will overtake you. No disaster will come near your tent. (Psalm 91:9, 10)
At first glance, one might think that this Scripture is saying that as Believers we won’t have trouble in this life, but that’s not what it says at all. It states that the testing of this life will not OVERTAKE us. “In this world you WILL have trouble, but take heart, I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33)
The trials that come into our lives aren’t for nothing, and are even allowed by God, (which nobody likes to hear, see Ecclesiastes 7:13,14). “But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered awhile, perfect, establish, strengthen and settle you” (1 Peter 5:10). There’s a settling of the soul that comes after much difficulty, because we soon realize that our ONLY goal must be to keep God first, no matter what befalls us, and He will “deliver us out of all our trials” (Psalm 34:19). This is a promise.
Deuteronomy 8:16, tells us another fruit of trials - they come to humble us… “Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you, and that He might test you, to do you good in the end.” It’s a great thing to be brought face-to-face with our own insufficiency and God’s all sufficiency. And yes, it is humbling to realize we don’t have all that we need in ourselves (contrary to modern psychologists), but it is truly “good for us in the end” to remove ourselves from the throne and recognize that all we need is only found in Him.
Dear ones, the trials of this life are working in us to make us mature in Him, to snip the heart-ties that we have to this world, and to prepare us for eternity. But fear not, they will not overtake you, they will remake you more like His image.
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