STRONG TOWER
Today's reading: Proverbs 17-18

"The name of the Lord is a strong tower, the godly run to it and are safe." Proverbs 18:10 NLT

You've heard the song. You may even be humming a few bars of it right now. You've known this verse for years.

But do you know it?

Have you felt it in your very being?

Have you experienced it in the deepest part of you?

When your fears began to grow uncontrollably?

When news knocked the breath out of you?

While standing over a feverish child?

When your heart was broken over sin, yours or another's?

When your hands were tied and there was nothing else you could do?

When grace was all that was needed?

When the future scares and the past haunts?

Have you felt the truth in this verse? 

The meaning of the word "Christian" has been reduced to practically nothing. Surely, there is no word that has been so devalued unless it is the word "God" itself.   -Francis Schaeffer