God Promises a Safe Journey

Psalms 141:7-10 “As one plows and breaks up the earth, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave.” 8 But my eyes are fixed on you, O Sovereign LORD; in you I take refuge – do not give me over to death. 9 Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, from the traps set by evildoers. 10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.
 
ONCE there was a youth camp for atheists. People who reject God felt if Christian youth could have a camp for recreation and sharing like thoughts, so the atheists could enjoy some time celebrating their unbelief in God. They could rejoice in themselves! Things went along well at the camp until the night the conversation turned to death. The young atheists could not grasp the thought of nothing after life. A great uneasiness and despair fell over the group, suddenly consumed with fearful thoughts of the end of their existence. People can easily say, “I don’t believe in God.” until the reality of life without God confronts their hearts.
   David confronted his enemies with this eternal emptiness. He quoted the opposition’s mockery of eternal life: “Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave.”
   Then he countered that with God’s reality. Our bones spread on the ground are not our eternal truth. Life does not end at the mouth of the grave. Life continues and expands in God’s refuge. If our eyes are fixed on an empty death, a restlessness arises in our soul that cannot find peace. But when we fix our eyes on God, we see our life held firmly in our creator’s hand. His Word is our refuge, our hope and our joy.  
   We pray with David for the LORD to keep us from the snares and the traps set by evildoers. Emotional and spiritual snares are Satan’s methods to disturb our hearts. Unbelief and pride entrap many a heart to believe their wisdom exceeds God’s truth. They gather to celebrate their “wisdom” and mock the “superstitious” Christian mind.
   Snares, though, are just that. We think we’re safe in our self-absorbed truth. But something soon cause us to wonder, “What is true?”  As those young atheists learned, there is no escaping the snares of fear, emptiness and futility that wrap around a Godless heart.
   Pray against the unbelief that imprisons people you know and love. Pray they will turn to the LORD God to find a refuge that will embrace them forever. Help them to know the Lord Jesus Christ has come to show us how to pass by (death) in safety into his home. John 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; 26 and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” 27 “Yes, Lord,” she told him, “I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”
   There is no grave when you are alive in Jesus.