✝Ever Sheltering Wing✝

“He will shield you with his wings. He will shelter you with his feathers.”
(Psalm 91:4)

From how many winds is God protecting you? His wing, at this moment, shields you. A slanderous critic heading toward your desk is interrupted by a phone call. A burglar en route to your house has a flat tire. A drunk driver runs out of gas before your car passes his. God, your guardian, protects you from

“every trap” (Ps. 91:3);
“the fatal plague” (Ps. 91:3);
“the plague that stalks in darkness” (Ps. 91:6);
“the terrors of the night…the dangers of the day” (Ps. 91:5).
One translation boldly promises: “Nothing bad will happen to you” (Ps. 91:10 NCV).

“Then why does it?” someone erupts. “Explain my job transfer. Or the bum who called himself my dad. Or the death of our child.” If God is our guardian, why do bad things happen to us?

Have they? Have bad things really happened to you? You and God may have different definitions for the word bad.

God views your life the way you view a movie after you’ve read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. Why? You’ve read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He’s not only read your story…he wrote it. His perspective is different, and his purpose is clear.

God uses struggles to toughen our spiritual skin.

Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way. (James 1:2–4)

Trust him. “But when I am afraid, I put my trust in you” (Ps. 56:3). Join with Isaiah, who resolved, “I will trust in him and not be afraid” (Isa. 12:2).

God is directing your steps and delighting in every detail of your life (Ps. 37:23–24). In fact, that’s his car pulling over to the side of the road. That’s God opening the door. And that’s you climbing into the passenger seat.

There now, don’t you feel safer knowing he is in control?

By: Max Lucado

✝Unsaid✝

Fears lingers in the mind like never before
Where even uncertainties resounds unendingly
So much that it has tire me with all ‘your’ probing
Laden me no more I plead tearfully, will ‘you’?

Just a mere word from ‘you’ ever since then
Wrecking all passions and dreams once held
Making all concerns and thoughts so insignificant
As 'you' magnify ‘your’ points and unsaid rid-off.

Ever once I tried standing strong fighting all I can
Yet through the passage of time I begin to resign.
Nothing else holds any further meaning despite all
Perhaps I should just let go of all I once cherished…

✝Dejected✝

This merciless speed of every tick on the clock
Suppressing me was the breathless chase on me.
What’s left of me I wish so much on expectation
Turning out was yet the way it should have been.

Could it be due to this close race of time that
Finally brings upon the unspoken pressure in me?
Resounding within me was the unseen persistence
Yet so afraid I am on foreseeable disappointment.

As much as I’ve always been the strong one
Yet as human as I am stumble and fall I’d still be.
Seeking for what could possibly hold me back
Before what seems uncalled for might just strike.

In this ever refuge I’ve been keeping and seeking
Has the hour arrive to lay all my considerations?
The depth of how much my value is I wonder.
Such passive concern should I just let it all go?

Pouring over me words of honor and commitment
Yet such seems too real to be true to cling onto.
So tiresome so weary of reasoning these interlinks
Is there any way where it would just work out right?

Cruel reality overwhelming facts painful truths
Leaving me with no way but to just resign to it.
Turn my every tear into diamonds in Your Hands
Help me comprehend what’s beyond in a shelter.

✝Shelter✝

What’s wrong, what’s getting you down
Is it something I might have said?
You’re walking around
With your head to the ground
And your eyes are watery red.

I know you’ve been through tough times
Kicked around, thrown to the ground
But you’ve always been the strong one
So don’t tell me that nobody gets you
Cause I’m standing in your corner
Knocking at your door
You don’t have to be alone

Just call my name
Let me be an answer
Cause it hurts me to see you this way
I want to ease your pain
Help me understand
Let me be your shelter my friend

We share a bond
You and I we belong
We’re like coffee and morning trains
You strip my defenses
I catch your pretenses
The same blood runs through our veins
I swore I’d be your lifeline
Made a vow that I’d surround you with love at every milestone
I’ll listen when nobody gets you
I’m still standing in your corner
Waiting by your door
You don’t have to be alone.

Just call my name
Let me be an answer
Cause it hurts me to see you this way
I want to ease your pain
Help me understand
Let me be your shelter my friend

It was not too long ago
You sought to understand
You helped me mend
Remember when
So promised me you’ll

Call my name
Let me be an answer
Cause it hurts me to see you this way
I want to ease your pain
Help me understand
Let me be your shelter my friend.

✝Spoken✝

In this very faithful silent night you sang
Where no one spoke after a tangible voice I shared.
Filling within me was weariness beyond measure
As I know whatever I say no longer means anything.

So choosing to bury it deep not trying to think
Void once again I know it will for all reasons.
Yet when your song came from Heaven to me
So sharp it was that tears uncontrollably fall.

Lyrics of “Shelter” you spoke much it hits
Crystallizing my feeling through and through
When all that’s within was once again surfaced
Acknowledging this is what I truly need.