Pick up that penny, it will bring you luck!

Pick up that penny and it will bring you luck! I heard that one the first
time when I was a kid. Most of us have. And yet we keep the superstition
alive because we repeat it to this day if we don't know better. Well, even
when we do know better we still say it to a kid once in awhile. How about
carrying a rabbit's foot. (old joke is that it didn't bring the rabbit any
luck did it?) How about rubbing Buddha's belly. Now that sounds like sure
fire wisdom. How about a horse shoe above your door? Then there is the old
reliable lucky charm. And of course my husband's favorite one, kiss a bald
man on the head!

I asked you on Friday to read Psalm 91. For those of you that do not have a
Bible I will enter it here. This will be from the New International Version
for more clear understanding of this amazingly powerful Psalm.

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the
Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God,
in whom I trust.
Surely He will save you from the fowler's snare and from the deadly
pestilence. He will cover you with His feathers, and under his wings you
will find refuge; His faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. You
will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the
pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at
midday.
A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it
will not come near you. You will only observe with your eyes and see the
punishment of the wicked.
If you make the Most High your dwelling, even the Lord, who is my refuge,
then no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your tent. For he
will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they
will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot
against a stone. You will tread upon the lion and the cobra; you will
trample the great lion and the serpent.
"Because he loves me," says the Lord, "I will rescue him; I will protect
him, for he acknowledges my name. He will call upon me; and I will answer
him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. With
long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation."

That to me is the most beautiful and reassuring writing in the Bible.
However, if you think that you can merely rub God's tummy and make a wish
you are sadly mistaken. You must come into a fellowship with our most high
God. The last lines of this precious Psalm begins with the words, "Because
he loves me". God takes great fatherly pride in His children who love Him.
And a true father's love knows no limits.

You have to know someone to love them. And even with those who do not know
God, love leads to marriage and living and abiding with someone. It means
to speak and live with them each and every day and night. You naturally see
to their health and welfare. You see to their safety from things and people
that would harm them. It means to provide for them. How much more then
should our union with the living God be? Seek Him. Learn to love Him by
getting to know Him. How you ask? Read His word. Anything you ever wanted
to know about God is there for the reading. And once you know Him, you will
fall in love with Him. He is already in love with You. So once that
communion takes place with God and you learn to dwell in "the shelter of the
Most High" you will have all the "luck" you will ever need......Patti