Personal Bodyguard

“For the Lord has a hidden storehouse of wisdom made accessible to his godly lovers. He becomes your personal bodyguard as you follow his ways, protecting and guarding you as you choose what is right.”

Proverbs 2:7-8

Fine Arts Competition Festival is a weekend event that the children and youth in our church go to every year. This year it was held in Dayton, Ohio. Early Friday morning we all packed up and left to get there on time. 

We spent all day Friday going from room to room listening to the different competitions and cheering on our youth. Saturday, once again, we were up early going room to room, but now we were watching and cheering on the children. I love Fine Arts, but is it exhausting and by Saturday morning, I was dragging.

We were in a room waiting for a competition to start. I decided it was a good time to clean out some of the trash from my purse. Over the weekend, it seemed my kids were using it as a trash can and at this point it was overflowing. So I gathered some trash out of it and headed to what I thought was the women’s bathroom. I opened the door and to my surprise, it was not a women’s restroom like I was expecting. It was a dark, dreary maintenance closet. I didn't venture in, I immediately closed the door, hoping no one saw that I had done that. But some people did see and we all got a good laugh out of it. 

After that whole ordeal, I decided to find my husband. He was standing along the back wall in the room. I went over and leaned against Him and began watching the kids. All of a sudden, I began to feel wetness on my back side. I wondered, “What in the heck!?!” I turned around and to my dismay, somehow I leaned myself against a water fountain. Not only had I positioned myself against the water fountain, I managed to put my backside right against the button and it was spraying on me for I don't know how long! My backside was SOAKED! Everyone got a good laugh about that! 

I had been pondering this whole ordeal for a while. Wondering what message was in this, because there was sure to be a message! This morning in my quiet time, I felt that God was leading me to this point. 

Even when we have put ourselves in safe environments, we still get tired and weary. Things will happen to distract us or pull us away. Our judgment is not as sharp or as quick. We open doors that lead to places that we didn't expect or anticipate. And, sometimes, unexpected things creep up on us and before we know it, we are left feeling drenched and uncomfortable!

“For the Lord has a hidden storehouse of wisdom made accessible to his godly lovers. 

He becomes your personal bodyguard as you follow his ways, 

protecting and guarding you as you choose what is right.”

Proverbs 2:7-8

But in those moments don't forget, we are still in our safe place! We have not moved from our safe place, our environment did not change! Did things try to creep in and cause distraction and trouble? Yes! Did doors open that could have moved you out of your safe place? Yes! But in those moments when doors open that don't lead to places we expected. God is still there to alert us and protect us! We need to cling to this promise! He is still our personal bodyguard!