Sun & Shield; Grace & Glory

For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield; Jehovah gives grace and glory; 
Psalms 84: 11

The blessings of our dwelling in the house of God are our enjoyment of the incarnated and consummated Triune God as our sun to supply us with life (John 1:4; 8:12), as our shield to protect us from God's enemy (Eph.6:11-17), as grace for our inward enjoyment (John 1:14,17), and as glory for the outward manifestation of God in splendor (Rev.21:11,23). Crystallization-Study of the Psalms, Vol.3, Message 14

Indeed, how true it is in my personal experience of the Lord. Since the day I came into the house of God, I could see that God is not just an outward God as an object of worship only as many religiously superstitious believers do. But He is very much enjoyable as the indwelling life in me as my SUN, the source of my life supply, supplying me with the divine life, not just on the day of my salvation but since then from that very day. As such a SUN, He is drying away all my wetness from groping through mud and water of the world, killing every germs that breeds on the wetness of sin. And supplying the heat and life needed to make me grow, mature, bear fruit and finally ripen for His own harvest.

God is my SHIELD too, shielding me from the fiery darts of the foe. Daily I come to Him as my shield, my hiding  place. Apart from Him, I am just a defeated foe to the foe. But God as my shield, the enemy has no ground and no chance to touch me. He does indeed continuously roared at me but I keep going on under covering of the Lord my shield and I am 100% secure in the house of God, the best firewall.

God is not religiously to be worshiped. The best worship is to enjoy Him daily. The enjoyment of God in Christ as the Spirit is GRACE! Jehovah God gives grace! He gives Himself to me day by day. Even this morning the grace He gave me is this very experience on this blog. He is so rich and can be enjoyed in myriads of flavor. He is all-sufficient and all-inclusive for me to enjoy in every aspect of human life. Not only of those things outward, but much more in things inward. "Lord, grant me the grace I need to enjoy you as GRACE all the days of my life."

God is a God of glory manifesting who He is. And He does wherever He pleases in any kind of environment. Often, in times of trials He comes and manifest Himself using every opportunity created by the wiles of the devil in His manifold wisdom. What the devil has done with his evil intention, God uses it, overturning the whole thing and making it a platform for the manifestation of His glory. This He did in the days of old with the Egyptian Pharaoh. Each time Pharaoh hardened his heart, it was God's opportunity to judge the sinful Egypt and manifest His glory. So is the case in my life. Each time the enemy raises his hand to strike me or my family or the saints in the church, God comes in and manifest His sovereign and manifold wisdom. And at the end, it's all to the glory of God. And indeed to Him is all the glory!

Praise the Lord! God is my sun and my shield, He is grace and glory, when in the house of God, the church. So be it to you.