Have you walked on any young lions or snakes lately? When I read those words in one of my favorite Psalms, 91, I wondered what they meant. Then I thought back to the previous words of this Psalm, the Protection Psalm. The Lord is promising those of us who live under His shadow, those of us who trust Him as our refuge and fortress, that He will be with us even in extremely dangerous times and will be our protection against fearful and deadly enemies.
If I saw a lion in the wilderness or a rattlesnake or copperhead in my path, I would be inclined to run the other direction. And probably not a lot of us will ever have that sort of confrontation. But we face things throughout life that seem as deadly and fearsome as anything in nature. Illness, death of loved ones, an uncertain economic future; all these things can be as overwhelming as an animal bent on our destruction.
I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s. Some of the changes during my lifetime in our great Nation to me seem more deadly than the bite of a poisonous snake. They are enough to make me want to crawl into bed and pull the covers over my head and stay there, not even looking out at what’s going on. But the Bible says we are victorious. We are not to face with fear these things that bewilder or threaten us. We are to walk on them. In other words, face them down, don’t be afraid of the “terror by night”, the “arrow”, “pestilence” nor “destruction”.
We can’t face evil on our own merits. I don’t know about you but I have none. Yet the Lord promises He is with us all the time; that He gives His angels instructions to guard us. So even though seemingly insurmountable events may come against us in many different guises, don’t give up. The Lord promises if we call upon Him, He will answer us. With Him, we can indeed be victorious and trample on those fearsome lions and dragons.
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