(I know I already posted twice, but I just had a thought, and it's summer so I write more...maybe I'll work on a novel after this!)
You know when there's something you read that you really love, so you can read it over and over. Kind of like a song that you can actually stand on repeat (I use repeat a lot, actually...but most don't). The wonder of it just never gets old, - that's how I feel about Psalm 91! That is my verse!
If ever asked my favorite, I list a whole chapter. Haha.
It's just so powerful to me. And every time I read it, I feel overwhelmed by God's love; amazed by it; covered by it. An array of things, sometimes only one feeling, sometimes a mixture. I never get sick of reading that chapter. I usually read it more than once, when I do. I like to read it in different translations, though I know my favorite, and almost have it memorized, though not intentionally.
I'm not really one of those people, who has a book I can read over and over. If know the story, I'm not likely to ever read it again. In fact, I don't think I've ever read the same book twice, though I intend to with To Kill a Mockingbird, because I really enjoyed it.
But I read Psalm 91, and I love it every time. It's not a question. There is no room to falter, there is so much promise and so much love in this chapter. It absolutely romances me every time.
Sometimes, I'm like Belle in beauty and the beast, with this chapter. I know there's more to it, but sometimes I'll set out to read my bible and I can't get further than this. I get so caught up in it! There's definitely parts of the bible I've never read, and I just can't stop reading this. Maybe it is my life's meditation.
I discovered this verse when I was like 15 or so, still scared to stay home alone (over night), and my parents were gone for the weekend. Our stairway always felt like someone was watching me go up the stairs, so I'd run (if alone). Finally, - thank God for concordances & the people who make them, - I looked up protection. This hit me! At the same time, my brother was in Iraq, and I so I prayed this for him. And it just made it all the less scary to have him there, in the height of the worst of it.
Also apparently when I was like 5, my great grandma was ill, and I quoted some part of this Psalm to her? Not completely sure, but my mom told me this about a year ago. It blew me away because I had absolutely fallen in love with it. So it's really been important to me in life, thus far.
I mean, what better way to walk through life than to read that, and know it as truth! Wow. I could go on about this. But I think I won't. I think I've maybe convinced one or two people to read it. Hopefully. And if you're not a christian, read that and think about it!
It is almost the epitome of God's love (I'd call Christ the epitome, but this is second, in my mind).
