"Soul Preservation"

"Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity." (Psalms 141:9)

  No matter what, I believe that God will get me through and safely to the other side. It is a matter of trusting Him and believing that He will keep His word; because His word is amazingly sure and will surpass all of that this life might dish out, without a doubt! Just in case this Psalm is only about the trial David went through as he was running from Saul and those that were out to destroy him, it is still based upon the same principles that govern our new life in Christ. David was anointed to be king, so that means that God chose him, before He anointed him; and since God chose him, then God would see to it that he would be king, no matter what! We get distracted too much over the things that God allows us to go through that are intended to strengthen us for what might be ahead. You might have heard that saying, "That which does not kill us, makes us stronger," it turns out that we actually do get some positive changes after going through some sort of trauma, especially when we have faith in God! If nothing else, what we go through allows us to help others that might be going through the same thing; nobody knows what to expect from trauma like those that have lived through it already! To the point of the snares, as in the ones that David is asking God to keep him from; they are more about the power behind them, then they are about an actual trap; because in reality, if God has every intention of getting you to the other side, then no snare or trap is really going to prevent that from happening: not if God has anything to say about it; because if it has already been said, then you can consider it already done! You want to talk about power; nothing or no one has more power than God! This point Jesus made when He was telling how His sheep hear His voice, and they follow Him, as He said: And I give them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them to me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one." (John 10:27-30) As I was watching the movie, "Overcomer," last night, there was a point in the movie where, after she prayed to give her life to Jesus, the teacher that led her through the prayer told her to read the first two chapters of Ephesians and to write down everything that it said that she was in Christ. What a good lesson to follow! I have been involved in all sorts of experiences with telling people what to do after they accept Jesus into their heart, but I had never really heard that recommendation before; it was amazing to watch as she focused upon the words and wrote each one down, taking ownership of each and every one of them. There is absolutely no snare or trap that can undo that...

"The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death." (Proverbs 13:14)