A Daily Devotional From the Pen of John Bunyan: Where Are You Truly Safe? You Are Only Truly Safe in the Presence of God!

A Daily Devotional for September 4

In God’s Presence is Safety

“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us. Romans 8: 31.

God’s presence is the safety of a man. If God be with one, who can hurt one? As HE said, “If God be for us, who can be against us?” Now, if so much safety flows from God’s being for one, how safe are we when God is with us? “The beloved of the Lord,” Moses said, “shall dwell in safety by him, and the Lord shall cover him all the day long and he shall dwell between his shoulders” (Deuteronomy 33: 12). God’s presence keeps the heart awake to joy and will make a man sing in the night (Job 35: 10). “Can the children of the bridechamber mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them?” (Mattew 9: 15). God’s presence is feasting, and feasting is made for mirth (Revelation 3: 20; Ecclesiastes 10: 19). God’s presence keeps the heart tender and makes it ready to fall in with what is made known as duty or privilege (Isaiah 64: 1). “I will run the ways of thy commandments,” the Psalmist said, “when thou shalt enlarge my heart” (Psalm 119: 32). The presence of God makes a man affectionately and sincerely good. Yea, [and] makes him willing to be searched and stripped from all the remains of iniquity (Psalm 26: 1-3).