October 16

"He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." Psalm 91:1

The psalm might have been written by Moses after some terrible calamity had come upon the children of Israel. It might have been after that terrible night of death in Egypt, when the firstborn from the palace to the to the hovel were slain; or after that terrible plague of fiery serpents in the wilderness, when the people were full of fear and in a nervous state. Perhaps Moses called Aaron and Miriam, and Joshua and Caleb, and a few others into his tent and read this psalm to them first. How sweet it must have sounded, and how strange!

I can imagine Moses asking, "Do you think that will help them? Will that quiet them?" and they all thought it would. And then, (it may be), on one of those hilltops of Sinai, at twilight, this psalm was read. How it must have helped them, how it must have strengthened them!