“Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me! For my soul trusts in You; And in the shadow of Your wings, I will make my refuge, until these calamities have passed by. I will cry out to God Most High, to God who performs all things for me” (Psalm 57:1-2)

We are drawn to the confident trust of David in God’s sure mercies, where he chose to abide in the shadow of God’s wings. Even the shadow of God’s wings is enough! In Matthew 15, a gentile woman came to Jesus to seek healing mercies for her daughter and Jesus tested her saying: “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.” To this she replied: “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table” (Matthew 15:26-27). Jesus said her faith was great. If the shadow is there, then the wings are there too, meaning God is there! Hence Acts 17:27-28 reminds us faithfully that God “is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’”

Like David, let us grasp this insight and take this posture: “And in the shadow of Your wings, I will make my refuge, until these calamities have passed by.” He wasn’t going to be swayed to turn elsewhere. In Genesis 26, at the word of the Lord, in a land of famine, Isaac “sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and the Lord blessed him.” It is God “who performs all things” for us.

BeEncouraged❤️ Freely received. Freely shared