Psalm 9:9-10:
9 The LORD also will be a refuge and a high tower for the oppressed, a refuge and a stronghold in times of trouble (high cost, destitution, and desperation). 10 And they who know Your Name [who have experience and acquaintance with Your mercy] will lean on and confidently put their trust in You, for You, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek (inquire of and for) You [on the authority of God's Word and the right of their necessity].
Continue to increase your knowledge of the Word of God by meditating on it every day (Joshua 1:8) and you, too, can stand with authority on the Word for deliverance in every area of your life! He will then be YOUR Refuge and Stronghold from all of the attacks of the enemy!
Matthew 9:1:
1 AND JESUS, getting into a boat, crossed to the other side and came to His own town [Capernaum] (Matthew 4:13).
Here is a picture of the group we toured Israel with last year outside of the ancient city of Capernaum! The Bible absolutely comes alive in that land! So small, yet so filled with His Story!
In Ecclesiastes 7:25-26 shows that Solomon realized where he went wrong!
25 I turned about [penitent] and my heart was set to know and to search out and to seek [true] wisdom and the reason of things, and to know that wickedness is folly and that foolishness is madness [and what had led me into such wickedness and madness]. 26 And I found that [of all sinful follies none has been so ruinous in seducing one away from God as idolatrous women] more bitter than death is the woman whose heart is snares and nets and whose hands are bands. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.
If Solomon would have obeyed Deuteronomy 17:16-17, concerning horses AND wives, he could have avoided ALL that he went through here! God's Word is THE ANSWER for every situation! Solomon said it himself in verses 11-12:
11 Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, yes, more excellent it is for those [the living] who see the sun. 12 For wisdom is a defense even as money is a defense, but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom shields and preserves the life of him who has it.
As long as Solomon obeyed the Word of God and operated in the wisdom that God gave to him, he prospered and things went very well for him. It was when he forsook wisdom and obedience and went his own way that things went terribly wrong! Don't miss out on years of life worth living like Solomon did. Choose obedience and choose life! AMEN!
Shalom in Him!
