Opus 2026-234: A Cave or a Shield

As I look at the antics of congressional leaders who are supposed to be representing us and leading the country and instead see clowns, syncopates, RINOs and inside traders, I often despair.  I feel driven to prayer and calling upon God.  I am not sure that doesn’t make me worse than them.

Too often we look at prayer and trust as last ditch efforts that we implement when we retreat to a place to cower down and hide.  When we finally realize we are on the losing end we turn to God in desperation.  Don’t tell me you have never been there.  We need to make “there” our first position, not our last.

I had a song going through my head.  The segment that kept going through my head was, “You are my hiding place…”.  While I am sure there is a time to expect God to hide us we should be making our theme song more “Onward Christian Soldiers” than “Hiding in Thee.”

Think about the armor of God discussed in Ephesians 6.  If you look at verses 10-13 you get such words as standing, wrestling and against.  There is nothing about putting on the armor to hide in a cave.  Of course there is nothing about charging forward either.  Everything mentioned is defensive except the sword of the Spirit, the word of God.

God does speak of being a hiding place but He also talks about being a shield, a fortress, a rock.  We are called to stand up and face the music.  While we do that we need to rest in the knowledge that we have done our prayer time, that we live in trust and that the end results are really in God’s hands.  It means not living in fear.  God may allow us to go through hard times but keep in mind that His remnant will always be better off than the ones His anger will be directed toward.

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