Protected on All Sides

God lives and works today, but perhaps you don't feel that way because you are tense, anxious, burdened, or lonely. Then today's meditation by Baselius Schlink can give you some practical advice. Are you inwardly unsettled, unhappy, anxious, and lonely? Then you're advised to withdraw for a while to a secluded spot where all is quiet and where your Heavenly Father can speak with you.

Try to become fully aware of the reality of God's Word in Psalm 139, verse 5. O Lord, you are all around me, shielding me with your hand. This promise of God's love is valid for you. You may know that you're safe, completely safe in God, protected on every side.

Bring your need before him in a simple way, acknowledging that he is the best of all fathers, who loves you most. Everything depends on the picture of God you have in your heart and on your conception of the Heavenly Father. The more you expect all that is good from him as your loving Father, the more you will experience his love and goodness.

Do not only tell your Heavenly Father the things that move you to come to him and what you're expecting from him, but try also to set the image of his goodness before your eyes, realizing who he is and what he has promised you. Heavenly Father, I'm thy child. Is there better to be found than such loving union? Oh, how blessed to be with thee! Day and night secure to be by thy love surrounded.

Yes, my Father, I thank you that I am surrounded by your love and that you are always thinking of me. I thank you that you will answer my prayers and will forgive all of my sin for Jesus' sake. My Father, I will trust you, for I know that you are directing all my paths to a wonderful end and that you are taking care of me and will not let me, your child, perish.

My Father, I thank you that you will not let me be tempted beyond my strength and that you always have a way out of my troubles, for you are able to change every situation. Yes, with you nothing is impossible. My Father, I thank you that the blows of your hand are always blows of your love.

Yes, my Father, I thank you that you are my Father and that you are a God who is working miracles even today. You are kind, always kind. Only love to us we find.

Joyfully we praise your mercy. Father, you are love, love only. You are good, so good to us.

You have been listening to a program written by Basilea Schlink of the Little Land of Canaan. To learn more about how God lives and works today, visit us at our website www.canaan.org If you contact us, we would be happy to send you a free inspirational booklet. If you do not have access to the web, please contact this radio station for our postal address.

God bless you.