The Lord Is Our Light, Salvation, And Strength

-July 19, 2023-

Good morning, happy Wednesday,

“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?”

(Psalm 27:1).

The Lord is our portion. He is our God and we are His people. David, the author of this beautiful psalm, wrote so many of the psalms. Psalm 27 shows that the Lord is our everything, our all in all. We aren’t perfect, but the Lord is. The Lord is our light, our salvation, and our strength.

• Our light – John wrote, “This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:5-7). We are called to walk in the light and let our lights shine before men.

• Our Salvation – The word salvation that David uses refers to is not our soul’s salvation, rather it means deliverance. The Lord delivers us from all evil and helps us make it through the hardest times. The word salvation is used over 60 times in the book of Psalms. The Lord encourages us to trust Him more and more. Psalm 68:20 says, “Our God is the God of salvation; and to God belong the escapes from death.”

• Our strength – David says, “The Lord is the strength of my life.” We are weak in ourselves but in Him we are strong. He gives us spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional strength. The phrase, “The Lord is my strength is used three times in Scripture: By Moses in Exodus 15:2, once by David in Psalm 28:7, and once anonymously in Psalm 118:14.

Because the Lord is our light, our salvation, and our strength, we can ask with David, “Whom shall I fear? And of whom shall I be afraid? Our confidence is firmly and securely anchored in the Lord. Isaiah 41:10 says, “Fear not for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you. I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.”

Have a blessed day rejoicing in our light, our salvation, and our strength. Stay safe and healthy.

Walking in light, salvation, and strength,

Dean