Your Love Is…Pt III
Psalm 61:7 (New Living Translation)
7 May he reign under God’s protection forever.
May your unfailing love and faithfulness watch over him.
The one thing most people that know me well can tell you that I am, is a protective mom. You can mess with me, and talk about me, because I can stand my own ground, and I will go to God on you in a minute, but, when you mess with my children, whether, natural, spiritual, step, adopted, foster or otherwise, that is when you will experience the lioness in me. I can easily transform from sweet, kind, understanding and loving to snap mode on you when it comes to my children. I do not care how old they get, I am still their mother and I still see it as my job to protect them. Protecting them is knitted into the fibers of the love that I have for each one of them! There have been some people who have crossed the line, as far as mistreating my children was concerned and they were politely told off in Jesus name…But serious, the love that this mother has and most mothers have and many fathers as well is a love that protects and this is definitively true our God’s love for us.
The Bible says that God is a strong tower that we are allowed to go into and be saved. (Psalms 61:3, Proverbs 18:10). The Bible reminds us that it is under His wings shall we be covered (protected Psalms 91:4). Just as I would protect my children, God will protect and cover His children. His love is one of a parent that seeks to ensure that His children are safe and secure from their enemies; even when that enemy is themselves. God loves us so much that sometimes He must protect and guard us against our own stupidity and limited sense of rationale and logic. Many times we assume that we know what is best for us, and what we assume is best only proves to make a grandiose mess, that is when God’s love shows up as a protector. Think back to how many times we wanted to go somewhere, or do something, or even wanted someone in our lives and something occurred and kept us from going or doing what we wanted or things didn’t work out with that individual and then we later found out that something detrimental happened at that place, or we would have been in an environment that would have proved dangerous and even deadly. Or that person that we swore was the best thing since sliced bread turned out to be someone that would have hurt us or ruined us. That was God’s protection, His grace and His mercy blanketing us, keeping us shielded and protected from these things, and no it wasn’t a coincidence it was God’s love for us keeping us!
Just as we should guard, protect, secure and stand watch over those we love, God does the same for us, but He does it in such a way that He even keeps us from hurting or damaging ourselves. He is the Father that loves His children so much that He sought to protect them by putting a plan in action in place to keep us from being eternally separated from Him. He loved us enough to reach down and save us from ourselves and keep enemies and adversaries from devouring us when we are in our weakest moments. God’s love protects us each night as we lay down to sleep, that no harm or danger befalls us, and watches over us and protects us each day as we go about our daily lives, driving the highways, flying in the skies, walking the streets and going by rail. As God loves us, are we loving Him enough to protect Him and His reputation by the way we live, walk and talk? By the way we represent Him? We have already established that God’s love protects us, but does our love protect Him and His kingdom? Something to ponder…and something to fix if the answer is no!
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