Praying Through Fear and Anxiety in God's Presence

The psalmss. is full of metaphors and images, and we kind of just read them and they sound like bible,. like images or whatever. So let's look at him a litte a little more closely. He says, first of all, he says, away, you are a shield. You're a shield around me. Now just stop and think about that for a second. A shield doesn't prevent bad things from happening to you. What a shield does is protect the most vital part of who you are from being totally annihilated when the bad things happen. And i think a helthiss helpful kind of category for what david is getting at here: 12 thousand people