Safe Dwelling

I have many wonderful memories from being in a choir at the church I attended years past.  Choir practice was always enjoyable and encouraging.  The relationships built there were like family.  And it was always rewarding to come together on Sunday morning to display our labor of love.  Most of the songs sung there are ingrained in my memory and have been used by God to lift my spirit time and time again.  As I prayed this morning, one such song came to me and immediately gave me rest from burdens God didn't intend for me to carry.  It also complimented His Word taught me this morning out of Isaiah 61: 11 and 62:1.

     “Lead me Lord!  Lead me in Thy righteousness!  Make Thy Way plain before my face.  For it is Thou Lord, Thou only that maketh me dwell in safety.”

Isaiah: “So the Lord will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.”  God says for Zion’s sake…for Jerusalem, He will not keep silent; He will not keep quiet, “Until her righteousness goes forth like brightness, and her salvation like a torch that is burning.”

He will lead us but also He will use us to light the path ahead. “In His light we see light.” Let us "not grow weary in well doing".  Let us not fall under a load of care.  Let us be used to light the path and let us give to Him the burden to carry.  He said to “come unto Me all you who are weary and heavy laden…”.   He gives the light, carries the burden, and gives us safe dwelling.  We must not live as though we are doing this alone.  He “will not leave us or forsake us”!!   "Thou only maketh me dwell in safety."