Encouragement: I have taken shelter in You.

Today I bring you encouragement from Psalm 16: 1-2
  
 Psalm 16

   Protect me, O God,
   for I have taken shelter in you.
   I say to the LORD,
   “You are the Lord, my only source of well-being.”

Biblical Studies Press. (2006; 2006). The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible (Ps 16:title–2). Biblical Studies Press.

Some days are just "shelter" Days.   You know the kind of day, the ones where you wake up to meet a challenge even before you get out of bed. 

Some times we need to just tuck as close into God as possible, that we may endure the storm.

In that time it will not be easy to proclaim
“You are the Lord, my only source of well-being.”

But that is the key to it all.  In making that proclamation we move the focus off ourselves and what we can do in our on strength and we transfer over our "situation" to God's control.  He is the One who works with knowledge of the big picture.

Be assure if you face trials, God is using you, knowing that His good servant can endure the storm and be able to proclaim with confidence at the end of the day, “You are the Lord, my only source of well-being.”

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