MARCH 5 – Place of safety

“From the ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to the rock that is higher than I” - Psalm 61:2

Joni Eareckson Tada tells of the summer of 1959 that she and her family spent near a little cow town just north of Phoenix, Arizona. Joni and family were helping her Uncle Ted to separate his herds of cattle. Every day Joni and her sisters headed out on the best cow ponies to round up the herds before the morning melted into the desert afternoon.

Before setting out, Uncle Ted told Joni and her family to head for “the big red boulder up on that yonder ridge” if they ever got lost. One sizzling hot day Joni did. She urged her pony in the boulder's direction and found shelter in it's shadow. It was, for her, a place of refuge. Within an hour she heard galloping hooves heading up the ridge and knew she would be found. Joni knew the high rock had been her only sure and certain hope.

The same is true for us. No matter how lost we feel God is with us. If we are resting in him, we are exactly where we are supposed to be. We'll be found. We'll be safe. Sanctuary in Him is only a prayer away.

(365 Days of Hope).

There is no safer place than the place of our music today, “Lead Me To That Rock” - Live – the Gaithers