Insecurity
Psalm 142:1-7 “Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave. I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication. I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble. When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me. I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.”
The introduction to Psalm 142 says, “Machil of David; A prayer when he was in the cave”. When David wrote this Psalm, it was a time of great insecurity in his life. The word insecurity simply means not feeling secure or safe. That feeling is expressed many times in the Psalms as David was running for his life from Saul. I suppose that you, like me, have never been on the run for your life, but take a moment and consider the reasons that David felt insecure during this time that we can identify with.
Sources of Insecurity:
Conflict: David was experiencing a great deal of conflict with Saul. He lived in Saul’s house and ate at his table. David looked up to Saul as a mentor and father figure, but now there was nothing but conflict between them.
Separation from loved ones: David was already separated from his own family because of joining Saul’s army; he couldn’t go back to them for fear that Saul would kill his whole family. Now David was also separated from Saul, as well as from his friend Jonathan and his other companions. You read in Psalm 142 that no man would know him and that no man cared for his soul. This separation from his loved ones caused David to feel isolation, which was a great cause of insecurity for him.
Change: Everything that David had known was turned upside down. His home was gone, his job was gone, his friends were gone, and all he could do was run for his life. He says in the Psalm that refuge failed him; he had nowhere to go, so here he was sitting in a cave with nothing left.
Rejection: David certainly would have felt rejected by Saul, first because of Saul’s anger at him, and secondly because Saul made it clear by his actions and words that he wanted to kill David. Not only this, but it had not been very long before that as David returned from battle he heard people calling out that “Saul has slain his thousands and David his ten thousands.” David was a national hero and now no one was willing to help him; he was rejected by everyone and alone.
Most people experience natural insecurity mostly between the ages of 8-14. It is during these ages that a course is generally set because of insecurity that causes many to grab hold of something to give them a feeling of security, and those things often become compulsive behaviors or addictions. The same issues that David faced are sources of insecurity for nearly everyone. Consider these reasons in a more personal application.
Conflict – This often comes in the form of fighting between parents. When parents fight, the children experience a great amount of insecurity. There is almost nothing more frightening to a young person than the prospect of losing one of their parents. Parents are a significant source of our security and when they are in open conflict, the fear increases in children.
Separation from loved ones – This can happen because of the death of a friend or a loved one. Losing someone close to you can turn your whole life over, regardless of your age. Many people have wrongly attached their own identity to that of another person and when the other person dies, they suddenly lose their source of personal identity and security. Divorce is another significant factor in this regard. When a parent, most often a father, is suddenly removed from the home because of divorce, it creates a tremendous amount of insecurity in a child. I have even known people whose parents divorced in their adult years. They were thrown into a significant amount of insecurity because the separation of their parents removed the foundation for their personal security. Divorce is an incredibly destructive and destabilizing event for children, regardless of their age. For a child, there is no such thing as an amicable divorce.
Change – aging provides its own insecurities as we grow and change. Moving from one class to another in school or moving to new schools as we grow can create feelings of insecurity. Add physical changes such as puberty and you increase insecurity even more. For many people, moving from place to place is a way of life, and such moves provide insecurity for a young person. They lose their friends and now are alone, and must make new friends from strangers. New schools, new churches, new everything, all out of their control. There is a great desire to fit in that is a result of our insecurities, and so often when a person is plucked from the place that they are accustomed to and placed in a new environment, they experience peer pressure in a whole new way. They have no one and long to be accepted, so they will do things or change their behavior in order to be accepted because of the new insecurities that they are experiencing. Both separation from loved ones and change are the reasons that many missionary and military children struggle with insecurity and often fall prey to addictions as a result.
Rejection – This may be the result of anger in the home that is interpreted as rejection of them as a person. It may be because of a parent or teacher who is a perfectionist and belittles them because of perceived weaknesses. It may also be the result of bullying or because of the rejection of peers that a person feels insecure about who they are, and as a result, begins to act out in a way to either gain acceptance or turns inwardly declaring that they don’t need anyone else, that they can meet their own needs.
In all these cases, there is often a tendency to grasp for something that can relieve the feelings of insecurity that have resulted. It is during these vulnerable times that a trap is often laid and fallen into, a trap that provides a false feeling of security. David warns about that very thing in Psalm 142. He says in verse 3, “they privily laid a snare for me”. In verse 6-7, he gives some other indications of what happens when a person falls into the snare of insecurity, saying that he was brought very low. Insecurity will bring a person to a very dark, very low place, desiring to be delivered from his persecutors. We might understand that when a person grabs onto a false security, they will feel some solace in it, but they will also feel that they are being drawn into a darker place. David recognizes that such things are stronger than he was.
When we consider the things that a person might grab to provide a feeling of security, we must understand that these are generally very destructive substitutes. Alcohol, drugs, pornography, overeating, escape into fantasy through roll playing games, gangs, etc. Some even go to an extreme of being hyper-controlling, trying to control everyone one around them, becoming something like a dictator when they get married and have children, or if they get some authority at work or church, become incredibly demanding. All these things can seem to provide a sense of security at first, but at length, they become our persecutors and are stronger than we are, and just as David expresses in verse 7, they become our prisons. They often become prisons because they are kept as secret sins hidden from everyone else. Our secrets will become our prisons. They are also prisons because of their addictive nature.
In doing a fair amount of Biblical Counseling, I have seen this pattern repeated over and again. Someone experiences a crisis in their home between the ages of 8-14, shortly after this they are exposed to something that provides a false sense of security, and they become addicted to it. Later in life, though they want to be free, they cannot seem to get victory over it. Often this is because they are trying to deal with the actions without dealing with the source that caused them to seek a replacement for what they were missing.
Lest you think that insecurity is only an issue that hardened addicts face, let me share my own testimony with you. When I was about 10 years old, there was a lot of turmoil in our home. We had moved to a new city for the third time I could remember. My dad was a pastor who was very driven to build the church. For several years we barely saw him, and when he was home, there was often conflict. Things were bad enough that my mother considered leaving. I want to be clear that I have good parents and there were a lot of changes made following this time. They are still married and have been a great example to me of being willing to make changes to make marriage work. During that time, I was, however, as you might expect, incredibly insecure. When parents fight, kids worry; they have doubts about their security. There is little in this world that frightens a child more than the idea that their parents will not be there for them.
During this period, a family visited our church that had a son just a little older than me. His dad had dirty magazines and he had found one. This was the first time in my life I had ever seen pornography. Like most young men, this exposure to pornography created a temptation in my life. I praise God for His deliverance from the feelings of insecurity, but for some time after this ,when there was an issue in my life that stirred up my insecurities, this temptation would return.
Many are overcome by those very temptations and believe that giving into them will provide the feeling of security that they are missing. The reality is that when you give into the temptation to sin you are more vulnerable than you have ever been. The deception that you are safe becomes a lie that you allow to bind you because it seems to solve the issue that you are facing. All the while, it has just opened more issues than you can imagine.
The same is true if a person turns to alcohol, drugs, overeating, fantasy games or any other compulsive behavior as a means of attaining a feeling of security. These behaviors all make a person more vulnerable. You are not more secure when you are drunk or high; you just think you are. In reality, you have become a danger to yourself and others.
The longer that you are involved in these destructive behaviors, the more that the root of the issue becomes unclear. The issue becomes not only seeking security but also seeking the temporary pleasure that is offered. Most of the time, however, the compulsion is increased during times of high stress, when there is a conflict with your spouse, when there is a major life change such as moving, job change or a change in the family of another kind, when there is a death of a loved one or a feeling of rejection that occurs. All of these things stir once again the desire for security and cause the person to be overwhelmed with the compulsion to act upon what they have become convinced restores the feeling of security that they are missing.
If security cannot be restored by these activities, how can it be dealt with? David gives us a three-part answer in Psalm 142. First, he says in verses 1-2, “I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication. I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.” Before a person can get victory over the compulsive behaviors and addictions that have come because of their insecurity, they must recognize this as the source of their problem. David said that he poured his complaint out before God and showed Him his trouble. If you are pursuing a sense of security outside of God, then acknowledging that and admitting to God where you went wrong is the only proper starting place to getting right.
Many people have come for counseling, and in doing so, had a root source of their problems pointed out by God, and once they saw it, they refused to deal with it. They want to be free from their addictions, but they don’t want to deal with the reason that they are bound by their addictions. Often this is because it is hard to be honest with yourself and others about your past, which may be seen as another sign of weakness and insecurity. When men come into our discipleship home, I tell them in our first counseling session that they will never get victory without first being willing to deal with whatever needs to be dealt with, and second, without being completely honest with God, me, and themselves about the real issues. I have spent countless hours counseling side issues to the point of great frustration because the underlying issues were still concealed, and one side issue would just be absorbed by another. Until you deal with the root of the problem, you are wasting your time trying to change the fruit.
The second thing that we see David do is acknowledge that the way he would deal with his insecurity do not work; only God’s way works. Another way to say this is that you must realize the fallacy of false security. He says in verse 3, “When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path.” Doing it your way is what got you into the snare that has you imprisoned. Doing it your way has kept you bound by the fake sources of security that have never genuinely fulfilled your needs. If you are overwhelmed, it is time to stop doing it your way and accept that God knows the path you need to take. Anything outside of His path is full of snares and traps that will just lead to more prisons.
If you are going to get victory over your compulsions, then you must start seeing the false security for what it is. Your addictions have not made you more secure; they have made you more vulnerable. You are not more secure because of pornography; you are more vulnerable because of the secrets, you are more vulnerable because of the damaging effect on your thinking, and it is leading to a hindrance in other relationships. You are not more secure because of alcohol; you are more vulnerable because of it, and you are hurting yourself and others. The same is true for drugs and food and every other compulsion that we substitute to try and fill our void of security. You must begin to be honest about what these things are. They have never been a real solution to your problem, but have only compounded your problems. The feeling of security that you got from them was fake, a façade, there was never any there, there. Realizing this will help you discount the false narrative in your mind that you need this to feel normal or secure.
The third thing that we learn from David here is that a person must restructure their thinking. In verse 4 David says, “I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.” It was the old thinking that lead to his insecurity, but in verse 5, David expresses a new way of thinking by saying, “I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.” You see David’s real refuge was in the LORD. Throughout the Psalms, we see this expressed as David calls God his rock, his deliverer, his strong tower, his fortress, his shield, his buckler, his safety and his refuge. All of these are expressions of security that come from a proper understanding of who God is. You never needed those things to provide you security; you needed a right understanding of who God is to you as His child.
God wants you to run to Him when you feel insecure instead of to your cave of compulsive behavior. He wants you to find your security in your relationship with Him instead of the prison of your addiction. The compulsions are stronger than you, but He is stronger than them. the prison is stronger than you, but He is the one who sets prisoners free. There are countless verses that speak to God being our source of security, as a matter of fact I have included many of them at the end of this article for you to read through. Read them, memorize them and claim them because they were not just for David, God recorded them for you to restructure your thinking about who He is and to help you to be able to hold onto Him in times when insecurity seems to overwhelm you.
My prayer for you is to learn what David knew about the security that is available in God. He said it well in Psalm 61:1: To the chief Musician upon Neginah, A Psalm of David. “Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.” Only when you learn this will you have freedom from the insecurity that your compulsions are rooted in.
Verses about God being our security
He is our Tower
2 Samuel 22:3 “The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.”
2 Samuel 22:51 “He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.”
Psalm 18:2 “The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.”
Psalm 61:3 “For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.”
Psalm 144:2 “My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.”
Pro 18:10 “The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.”
He is our Strength
Exodus 15:2 “The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.”
2 Samuel 22:33 “God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.”
1 Chronicles 16:11 “Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.”
1 Chronicles 16:27 “Glory and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place.”
Psalm 18:2 “The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.”
Psalm 18:32 “It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.”
Psalm 22:19 “But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.”
Psalm 28:7 “The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.”
Psalm 33:13 “The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
Psalm 33:14 From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
Psalm 33:15 He fashioneth their harts alike; he considereth all their works.
Psalm 33:16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
Psalm 33:17 An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.
Psalm 33:18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
Psalm 33:19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
Psalm 33:20 Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield
Psalm 33:21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.
Psalm 33:22 Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.”
Psalm 46:1 “To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”
Psalm 52:7 “Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
Psalm 59:17 “Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.”
Psalm 62:7 “In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.”
Psalm 71:16 “I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.”
Psalm 84:5 “Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.”
Psalm 105:4 “Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.”
Isaiah 12:2 “Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.”
Isaiah 40:28 “Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
Isaiah 40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Isaiah 40:30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”
He is our Rock
2 Samuel 22:2 “And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;”
2 Samuel 22:3 “The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.”
2 Samuel 22:47 “The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.”
Psalm 18:2 “The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.”
Psalm 18:46 “The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.”
Psalm 28:1 “A Psalm of David. Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.”
Psalm 31:3 “For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me.”
Psalm 42:9 “I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
Psalm 62:2 “He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.”
Psalm 62:6 “He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.”
Psalm 71:3 “Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.”
Psalm 92:15 “To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.”
He is our Fortress
2 Samuel 22:2 “And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;”
Psalm 18:2 “The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.”
Psalm 31:3 “For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me.”
Psalm 71:3 “Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.”
Psalm 91:2 “I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.”
Psalm 144:2 “My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.”
Jeremiah 16:19 “O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.”
He is our Refuge
2 Sameul 22:3 “The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.”
Psalm 9:9 “The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.”
Psalm 14:6 “Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.”
Psalm 46:1 “To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”
Psalm 46:7 “The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.”
Psalm 46:11 “The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.”
Psalm 57:1 “To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.”
Psalm 59:16 “But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.”
Psalm 62:7 “In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.”
Psalm 62:8 “Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.”
Psalm 71:7 “I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.”
Psalm 91:2 “I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.”
Psalm 91:9 “Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;”
Psalm 94:22 “But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.”
Psalm 142:1 “Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave. I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.
Psalm 142:2 I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
Psalm 142:3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
Psalm 142:4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
Psalm 142:5 I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
Psalm 142:6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
Psalm 142:7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.”
Proverbs 14:26 “In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.”
Isaiah 25:4 “For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.”
Jeremiah 16:19 “O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.”
Hebrews 6:18 “That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:”
He is our Deliverer
2 Samuel 22:2 “And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;”
Psalm 18:2 “The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.”
Psalm 40:17 “But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.”
Psalm 70:5 “But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.”
Psalm 144:2 “My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.”
He is our Shield
Genesis 15:1 “After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.”
2 Sameul 22:36 “Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.”
Psalm 3:3 “But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.”
Psalm 5:12 “For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.”
Psalm 18:35 “Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.”
Psalm 28:7 “The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.”
Psalm 33:20 “Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.”
Psalm 84:11 “For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”
Psalm 91:4 “He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.”
Psalm 115:9 “O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.”
Psalm 115:10 “O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.”
Psalm 115:11 “Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.”
Psalm 119:114 “Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.”
Psalm 144:2 “My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.”
Proverbs 30:5 “Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.”
He is our Buckler
2 Samuel 22:31 “As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.”
Psalm 18:2 “The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.”
Psalm 18:30 “As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.”
Psalm 35:2 “Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.”
Psalm 91:4 “He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.”
Proverbs 2:7 “He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.”
He is our Safety
Psalm 4:8 “I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.”
Psalm 119:117 “Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.”
Pro 1:33 “But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.”
Pro 3:23 “Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.”
Pro 18:10 “The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.”
Pro 21:31 “The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.”
Pro 29:25 “The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.”
I hope you consider these things, and even start a Bible study to learn more about the answers that the Word of God hold.
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