“My shield”

But You O Lord, are a shield about me; My glory and the lifter up of my head. Psalms 3:3

Verse Reflections:  This verse makes me imagine God covering me with His angels wings (not Biblical just my fun image) and snuggling me up close to His breast.  I am shielded from life.  I am covered, protected by His power.  I looked up the word “glory”:  honor won by notable achievements, magnificence or great beauty.  So true that God is our honor, our magnificence, our great beauty.  He allows us to be proud, to lift our head when we make Him the source of our honor and beauty instead of ourselves.  We can fail in life, we can be knocked down by life but God is the source of our ability to get back up and have confidence in ourselves.  You can weight 200, 300, 400 pounds and lift your head because God is the source of your beauty.  You can be twenty pounds overweight and continually sabotage your diet but you can life your head because God is the source of your honor and achievements.  I don’t know about you but that takes a lot of pressure off of me.  I am happy to know my accomplishments should not be the source of my pride, thus my failures are not the source of my anxiety.  It doesn’t change who I am, my desire to work hard, to accomplish, to change, to learn.  It does change my anxiety about not being perfect.  There have been times in my life where my husband or others put me on a pedestal and while there is a compliment in that, it also puts a lot of pressure on me.  I like knowing the source of my accomplishments are based on the power, and the abilities given by God.

Prayer:  Father, thank You for shielding me from life.  Thank You for giving me the power to eat Your foods.  Thank You for being the source of my honor and beauty.  Today I want to honor You in return by eating the foods You have given me, chosen for me.  I am humbled by the fact that You shield me.  So often I feel blasted by this world.  How much worse would it be if I was not shielded by Your power?  Thank You for this privilege of being shielded by You.  Thank You for loving me this much.  You are amazing and I want to say thank You by treasuring this beautiful vessel of life You have given me called my body.  I love You, I need You.  We are going to look out at the world today under the protection of Your beautiful wings of feathers and know that we will be a great team.  I will eat Your foods in my little haven of your wings.  I like the idea of having a picnic of grilled vegetables and wonderful smelling items in a little hollowed out recess under Your wings or the wings of the angels You send to protect me.  I love knowing that I hold my head up because YOU are the source of my glory.