Spacious Places

This week I ran across a journal entry from 12 years ago with two Psalms about spacious places.  At that point in my life, my kids were in the throes of hectic high school schedules, my career stress was mounting at a maddening pace, and the grief from losing my mother was still resurfacing in unexpected waves.  Sometimes the combination of all the pressures felt stifling.

But then the Lord reminded me of his spacious places.

Psalm 18:19 - He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me. [NIV]

Psalm 31:8 - You have not given me into the hands of the enemy but have set my feet in a spacious place. [NIV]

David wrote these verses as the Lord delivered him out of the hands of his enemies.  God also delivers us from our modern day enemies of busyness and sadness and fatigue. Why? Simply because He delights in us.

I believe the Lord has a rescue plan for people like you and me - one that brings us to a spacious place.   A spacious place to be at peace from the worries that make us feel choked and crowded.  A spacious place where there is plenty of room to breathe and rest. That place is His presence.  And to enter into it, we simply have to stop and rest with him.  May you find your spacious place in Him and return there often.