www.bible.com/1171/psa.18.35.mev

This Scripture spoke to me this morning because of the word shield to show salvation. Doesn’t salvation shield us from the worst that the enemy can do to us? The enemy of our soul thinks that he can defeat us with death, but we have the shield of salvation. It’s like a piece of invincible armor that no weapon of the enemy can pierce.

Then, the second part of the Scripture didn’t make a lot of sense to me, so I looked it up in several versions. The one I liked the best exchanged the word “gentleness” for the word “humility.” It is Jesus’s humility that was our example and through following his example, we become great leaders in the advancement of His Word. It is not that we ourselves are great. Jesus is great through us when we humbly allow Him to use us to reach others. Just as Jesus humbled Himself and came to earth as a man, so we humble ourselves before the King of Glory and ask for His will to be done in our lives. It in only in submitting to His will that we can become great. Our greatness is not in our own strength or to “toot our own horns.” It is the Lord to whom we owe everything and to Him that we give all honor and praise. Anything we do that gives us praise should be reflected right back to Him.

So that was my meditation for today. I hope that you all have a blessed day, using the shield to protect yourself from the enemy of our soul and His example of gentleness to approach others with the Gospel.