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Sooner or later, everyone needs a safe place, a protected place, cover from a blasting storm. When the sleet of illness pelts your life, when the downpour of grief drenches your heart when the winds of anxiety threaten to knock you down, you need a secret place, a hiding place to escape from those things threatening to knock the props from your life. You need the shelter of the Most High.

The psalmist wrote these words of invitation and comfort in Psalm 91:

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

-Psalm 91:1-2

The word translated “shelter” is the Hebrew word seter. It means “secrecy” or “hiding place.” God is our seter, our hiding place. We are to dwell in his hiding place. It is not a place to visit but a place to inhabit.

God invites you to his shelter. There you will find protection from the winds of anxiety. Come in out of the emotional rain. Take off your drenched clothes and warm up by the fire of his presence. It’s time to escape the storm and “abide in the shadow of the Almighty.”

Father,

You are my hiding place. You are where I can find strength and protection. You are where I can take off my garments of fear, pain, and grief to find rest in you. Thank you for being my hiding place.

In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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