"The God of My Life"

"Yet the LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life." (Psalms 42:8) Trials and tribulations have their place, as they keep us mindful of not only our need for God's help, but they also keep us mindful of God's love for us as His children; like the waves that come in along the ocean shorelines, sometimes small, and sometimes large and crashing, but always present. Thinking back, it's hard to think of a time when there was not something going on that needed to be dealt with; if there was plenty of money, then there was never enough time; or if there was security, then there was some sort of sickness; always something pressing that needed us to call upon the Lord and ask for His assistance. Because I believe that Jesus will come for His church before the Great Tribulation, that causes me to try and keep myself prepared for His coming; it's not that He will be returning all the way to the earth, because He won't do that until the end of the Tribulation; but the Bible says that we will meet the Lord in the air; actually it says, "For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." (1 Thessalonians 4:16 & 17) Trials and tribulations are part of what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ, and is the result of living in this broken world, having our eyes fixed upon a much better place; the Great Tribulation will be God's judgement upon an unbelieving world, which is altogether a different kind of tribulation, not brought on by the world, but brought on by God upon this world, of which God will not subject His children to (1 Thessalonians 5:9). With that said, we can try to understand what David is speaking of as he says, "Yet the LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime", because it is just that He has surrounded us with His lovingkindness, but that we shall never be separated from it, nor can anyone snatch us from His hand; but He will be snatching us from this world any day now, so we had better be ready to go... "But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do." (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11)