Will you stub your toe today? Pslam 90-92

Psalms 91:9-12 (NASBStr)

For you have made the Lord, my refuge,

Even the Most High, your dwelling place.

 No evil will befall you,

Nor will any plague come near your tent.

 For He will give His angels charge concerning you,

To guard you in all your ways.

 They will bear you up in their hands,

That you do not strike your foot against a stone.

This is my favorite Psalm.   I love the day I can read Psalms 90-92.   The three combine to be one of the most encouraging Words in all Scripture for me.   I have read them in times of victory and defeat.   This particular group of verses (above) stand in stark contrast to those just before them.  To pull them out of the chapter and have them stand alone is a poor way to view them.   The writer has just told us that pestilence, destruction, arrows, plagues, terror and a thousand deaths are happening all around us.   Yet, BECAUSE (not IF) we make God our refuge, God will protect us and those in our dwelling place.   The protection will be by His angels and will be so protective they (the angels) will make sure we don't even stub our toe agains a mere stone (spiritually speaking).  What a blessed assurance of what God can do and is doing in our life moment by moment.   NO EVIL WILL BE BEFALL YOU!!!  That doesn't mean that evil won't be around you.   This is a long quote for these short devotionals but I love how good old Matthew Henry covers this:.  

Matthew Henry:  "There shall no evil befal thee; though trouble or affliction befal thee, yet there shall be no real evil in it, for it shall come from the love of God and shall be sanctified; it shall come, not for thy hurt, but for thy good; and though, for the present, it be not joyous but grievous, yet, in the end, it shall yield so well that thou thyself shalt own no evil befel thee. It is not an evil, an only evil, but there is a mixture of good in it and a product of good by it. Nay, not thy person only, but thy dwelling, shall be taken under the divine protection:There shall no plague come nigh that, nothing to do thee or thine any damage."

Rejoice today in the promises of this great Psalm.   Today arrows fly, plagues inflict, destruction prevails, thousands die, terrors scar!  Yet, you won't even be inflicted by stubbing your toe on a stone.   His angels are watching and caring for you because you have made Him your refuge and not wealth, position, person or pride.