Our Sun and Our Shield

“For the LORD God is a sun and shield; The LORD gives grace and glory; No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.” Psalm 84:11

We have a very effective source of protection in our Lord God. Not only does He shine the light of His grace and glory upon us, He teaches us how to walk uprightly before Him in order that we have access to all that He has for us. Give thanks today that our Lord God is our sun and shield, our protector and defender and the one Who supplies every need according to His riches in glory. Today I will praise Him for all that He is and I will strive to walk uprightly so that I might experience all that He has for me.

There are so many wonderful attributes to God’s character and I had to laugh when I looked up the word ‘shield’ in my concordance. The Hebrew word meginnah means “a shield, a buckler or the scaly hide of a crocodile”! I think that would make a pretty effective shield, don’t you?