Timeless Biblical Truth.
Believers may feel safe and secure in life-threatening circumstances as they trust in the LORD who has charged His angels to protect and deliver them.
- Believers may feel safe in the LORD, the Almighty (91:1-2).
- A promise: The LORD will protect believers who are in fellowship with Him (1).
- A response: Believers believe in the LORD’S protection (91:2).
- Believers, therefore, do not need to fear in a life-threatening circumstance as the LORD has entrusted them to His angels (3-13).
- Promise #1: The LORD protects the believer in every lifethreatening circumstance (3-8).
- Promise #2: The LORD commits the believer to the care of His holy angels (9-13).
- The LORD promises to meet the believers’ needs and bless them with long life through His salvation (14-16).
- The LORD will deliver/protect the believer (14).
- The LORD will answer the prayers of the believer (15)..
- The LORD will bless the believer with a long life through His salvation (16).
Questions for Second Milers
- To what extent is faith in God personal? Why must it be personal?
- What is the basis for the declared protection/deliverance from danger expressed in verses 5-8?
- In what ways do the angels protect believers (cf. Genesis 24:40; Exodus 23:20)?
- What is the prerequisite for this kind of protection? Why?
- Make a list of your fears and troubles for which you want to trust God to deliver you. What is your part in the deliverance?
- Give your own short title to this psalm.
“In the biography of Mary Slessor of Calabar we are told that her own reading of the Bible was done early in the morning as soon as there was light, generally about 5:30, when ‘she took a fine pen and her Bible and turned to the book she was studying in the Old or New Testament, She underlined the governing words and sentences as she went along in her endeavor to grasp the meaning of the writer and the course of his argument. . . . Sometimes it would be three days before she would leave a chapter, but she did not leave it until she had some kind of idea as to its purpose. She was her own commentator, and, on the margin, she noted the truths she had learned, the lessons she had received, her opinions about the sentiment expressed, or the character described. When one Bible was finished, she began another and repeated the process, for she found that new thoughts came as the years went by.’” Wilbur M. Smith: Profitable Bible Study, 31-32.
Lanny Tanton is the Pastor at The Bible Church of the Lakes in Horseshoe Bay, Texas – just outside of Marble Falls. Pastor Tanton welcomes you to our website and hopes that you’ll enjoy reading these insightful blog posts. Please contact us if you have further questions!!
