Psalm Devotional
Coming Home Safely
This psalm is really about the believer’s life story. You can liken it to a trip around a baseball diamond. You are given a life and that brings you to the plate, ready to bat. Life inevitably throws curve balls, sliders, and fast balls. It takes some hard running around the bases before making it to home plate! Many will strike out and others may be sent to the dugout, so the illustration raises questions of eternal significance. The psalmist walks us round the bases, showing us how believers are committed to, covered by, and confident in the promises of God, and that they will, by the grace of God, certainly come home safely. Although anonymous, this psalm may be from the pen of Moses. It breathes something of the stresses of Israel’s wilderness wanderings.
The psalmist steps up to the plate. As a child of God, he lives in “the secret place of the Most High”—he is in union and communion with the Lord by grace through faith. Therefore his goal is to walk under the shadow—better understood as the shelter—of the Almighty. This is not what he hopes to do—it is rather his present condition, privilege, experience and destiny all rolled into one! Hence his personal testimony that God is his refuge and fortress—”My God, in Him I will trust” (v. 2). The believer is at home with the Lord in his soul, wherever he is and whatever his circumstances.
