NIGERIA BAPTIST CONVENTION SEEK DAILY (NBC) Friday, August 4 LIVING IN SAFETY

 

NIGERIA BAPTIST CONVENTION

SEEK DAILY (NBC)

Friday, August 4

LIVING IN SAFETY

RBT: Jeremiah 4-5

Memory Verse: “They will live there in safety and will build houses and plant vineyards; they will live in safety when I inflict punishment on all their neighbours who maligned them. They will know that I am the LORD their God.” Ezekiel 28:26, NIV

Bible Text: Ezekiel 28:24-26

28:24 “ ‘No longer will the people of Israel have malicious neighbors who are painful briers and sharp thorns. Then they will know that I am the Sovereign LORD. 

28:25 “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When I gather the people of Israel from the nations where they have been scattered, I will be proved holy through them in the sight of the nations. Then they will live in their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob. 

28:26 They will live there in safety and will build houses and plant vineyards; they will live in safety when I inflict punishment on all their neighbors who maligned them. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.’ ”

Augustus Toplady was one day overtaken by a severe thunderstorm in Burrington Combe, a rocky glen running into the heart of the Mendip Hills. There was no habitation anywhere near, and no place to which he would turn for shelter from the storm. Looking about him, he saw two massive pillars of rock, a deep fissure in the centre of a precipitous crag of limestone, and took refuge there. Standing there in safety, he escaped the storm. Finding a piece of paper lying near, he picked it up and with his pencil wrote the famous familiar hymn, first published in 1775, 'Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee.' 

God promised that Israel would be restored and all the nations would recognise that the LORD is indeed the God of all the earth. For the nation of Israel will come back from extinction twice and all who open their eyes to see this miracle will acknowledge that only God could have done this (vv. 25, 26). 

Do you desire to live in safety from the storms of life? Then do not leave Jesus, the only Rock of Ages.

Insight: The LORD is our refuge and our shelter during storms.

Prayer: LORD, as I dwell in your shelter, let me find rest under your shadow.