TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE

Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. Psalms 91:9-10
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Psalm 91:9 “Because thou hast made the LORD, [which is] my refuge, [even] the most High, thy habitation;”

So the words, according to Kimchi, also are directed to the good man; giving the reason of his safety, because he trusts in the Lord, and puts himself under his protection. But they should rather be rendered, and the accents require such a reading, “because thou, Lord, art my refuge”. And so are either the words of the good man that trusts in the Lord. Or rather of the psalmist himself, seeing his safety in the midst of danger, and ascribing it to the Lord. Whose providence was in a peculiar manner over him. Whose power protected him, and he was as an asylum or city of refuge to him; so that nothing could hurt him.

“Even the Most High, thy habitation”: It should be rendered, “thou hast made the Most High thy habitation”; being an apostrophe of the psalmist to his own soul, observing the ground of his security. The Most High God being made and used by him as his habitation, or dwelling place, where he dwelt, as every good man does, safely, quietly, comfortably, pleasantly, and continually. The Targum makes them to be the words of Solomon, paraphrasing them thus, “Solomon answered, and thus he said, thou thyself, O Lord, art my confidence; in a high habitation thou hast put the house of thy majesty.”

Psalm 91:10 “There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.”

The evil of sin cleaves to the best of saints, the evil of temptations besets them, and the evil of afflictions comes upon them, as chastisements from the Lord. For they must expect to receive evil, in this sense, as well as good, from his hands. But the evil of punishment never touches them; and therefore, when any public calamity befalls them in common with others, yet not as an evil of punishment; it is not an evil to them, it is for their good.

“Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling”: How should it, when they dwell in God, and have made him, the Most High, their habitation (Psalm 91:1). Otherwise it may come nigh their temporal dwellings (see note on Psalm 91:7). Though it may not enter into them; and, should it, yet not as an evil, or by way of punishment (see Prov. 3:33).

Many a minister of God has been called to the death bed of those with all sorts of dread diseases. The promise of God is that, if we live with God continually, there shall no plague overtake us. What if he did take some terrible disease, it would just hurry the time when he would be with the Lord forevermore. The promise is that the plague will not come near your house, if your house is a habitation of God. God would feel very uncomfortable in many homes today. Praise God! He is welcome in our home.

Verses 11-12: This promise of angelic protection was misquoted by Satan in his temptation of the Messiah (see Matt. 4:6).

TODAY'S BIBLE READING

March 29
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