"A Prayer for Protection"

PSALMS 64 [To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.] Sorry for getting carried away, but it is kind of one of my passions, the whole mystery of the "tree of knowledge of good and evil", and why God placed it there in the first place. Yes, I know that it involved choice, and how we must chose to obey Him because we love Him, but God knew all along we were going to fall; it might have taken longer had He not provided Adam a "help meet" to help move things along. No, I am not being sexist, it's really not about that, it's about having someone else to blame; which didn't really work anyways, because Adam was still the one held accountable. And so here we are, completely dependent upon the God who made us, and well aware that we are, we cry out for protection. What else is there to do? I mean really! We consider His plan, we realize His hand was in everything, and we realize our position in all of that; so what else is there for a small child to do, but to ask for protection from such a powerful Father? Before we go any further, we must be clear about something that many tend to misrepresent; protection is not measured by what is seen, it is measured in the spiritual realm, where it matters the most. It's pretty easy to see how important it is to keep the right perspective, as putting our attention on the wrong type of protection can cause us to be seriously disappointed in the midst of a trial. Instead we must be focused upon the most important thing of all, which is our relationship with God. Nothing else matters more than the relationship that we have with God; how much we trust Him and believe that He has only good intentions for all that He allows us to journey through; even those things that hurt and might cause us some temporal pain. Therein lies the key to understanding: temporal... "That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and won't last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we don't look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever." (2 Corinthians 4:16-18) NLT