Days of Praise

For a while now (at least a month I think, though my sense of the time is a bit fuzzy) I've been reading the Days of Praise devotions from ICR with Amy.  I try to read them and then pray together each morning before I leave for work, though a couple times I've gotten to work and then remembered (so we've read that evening), or I've also forgotten on a couple of days off where we slept in.  I'm enjoying them though, they're short, yet laced with quite a bit of Scripture.  And they send out an e-mail each day, which is perfect for me since I want something that I can easily remember.  Since I always check my inbox for new e-mails when I wake up this is perfect.  Here is a taste from today's devotion:

"And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." (Isaiah 32:2)

In the context of this beautiful verse, the "man" is none other than the Lord Jesus Christ. To one who had been traveling in the heat of the desert, such as the Sinai wilderness, nothing was so welcome as the cool shadows behind a great rock in which one could rest for a while from the hardships of the wearying land. The symbol of the shadow is often used in the Old Testament to illustrate the refreshing presence of the Lord.

~Matt