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June 20, 2022 8:00 pm
A Colorado mother proved she would stop at nothing to protect her child. Her five-year-old son was playing outside when she heard him screaming. She rushed outside and, to her horror, saw that her son had an unexpected “playmate”—a mountain lion. The large cat was on top of her son, with his head in its mouth. The mother summoned her inner mamma grizzly to fight off the lion and pry open its jaws to rescue her son. This mother’s heroic actions remind us of how motherhood is used in Scripture to illustrate God’s tenacious love and protection for His children.
God tenderly cared for and comforted His people as a mother eagle cares for her young (Deuteronomy 32:10–11; Isaiah 66:13). Also, like a mother who could never forget a nursing child with whom she had built an inseparable bond, God would never forget His people nor forever withhold compassion from them (Isaiah 54:7–8). Finally, like a mother bird offering protective cover under her wings for baby birds, God would “cover [His people] with his feathers” and “his faithfulness [would] be [their] shield and rampart” (Psalm 91:4).
Sometimes we feel alone, forgotten, and trapped in the grip of all kinds of spiritual predators. May God help us remember that He compassionately cares, comforts, remembers, and will fight for us.
Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily reading for today titled God fights for us was written by Marvin Williams, a Colorado mother proved she would stop at nothing to protect her child. Her five-year-old son was playing outside when she heard him screaming. She rushed outside and to her horror, she saw that her son had an unexpected playmate, a mountain lion. The large cat was on top of her son with his head in its mouth.
The mother summoned her inner mama grizzly to fight off the lien and pry open its jaws to rescue her son. This mother's heroic actions remind us of how motherhood is used in Scripture to illustrate God's tenacious love and protection for his children. God tenderly cared for and comforted his people as a mother eagle cares for her young also like a mother who could never forget her nursing child with whom she had built an inseparable bond.
God would never forget his people, nor forever withhold compassion from them. Finally, like a mother bird offering protective cover under her wings for baby birds.
God would cover his people with his feathers and his faithfulness would be there shield and rampart. Sometimes we feel alone and forgotten and trapped in the grips of all kinds of spiritual predators. May God help us remember that he compassionately cares, comforts and fights for us today Our Daily Bread devotional Scripture reading is taken from Psalm 91 verses one through 10. Whoever dwells in the shelter of the most high will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord he is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust. Surely he will save you from the fowler's snare and from the deadly pestilence.
He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge. His faithfulness will be your shield and rampart you will not fear the terror of night nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness nor the plague that destroys at midday a thousand may fall at your side, 10,000 at your right hand, but it will not come near you.
You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. If you say the Lord is my refuge and you make the most high your dwelling. No harm will overtake you know disaster will come near your tent. Now let's pray heavenly father as baby birds find protection under their mothers wings, may we find refuge under the shield of your faithfulness and it's in your name that we pray. Amen.
Thanks for listening today.
My name is Wes Ward and today's encouragement was provided by Our Daily Bread ministries
