Help from Psalm 91

It's fall now, and I have returned to going to Bible Study Fellowship to study Matthew in the New Testament. We are reading about the early life of Christ, and one assignment was to read Psalm 91. We were to put ourselves in the place of Mary and Joseph when they had to flee from Bethlehem to Egypt and write how this Psalm may have comforted them. 

I could see how having to flee to and from Egypt would put Mary and Joseph in the mind to benefit from "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."

As I read farther in the chapter, I found verses that helped me, "Because she loves me," says the Lord, "I will rescue her; I will protect her for she acknowledges My name. She will call upon me and I will answer her; I will be with her in trouble, I will deliver her and honor her. With long life I will satisfy her and show her My salvation."

I realized how many illnesses I have that God has rescued me from in-a-manner-of-speaking. He has given me a very mild case of Sjogren's Syndrome. Several years ago my internist commented that my symptoms are milder than most patients after 25 years. At one point, the medication Restasis was released to the market just as I was no longer being helped by over-the-counter moisturizing eye drops. I have a dry mouth, but there are OTC medicines for that. I have developed neuropathy in my feet slowly. There are patients who cannot feel their feet very well and have even fallen off step-stools because they did not feel the bottom of their feet. Plaquenil helps to relieve the stiffness in my fingers.

I have been healed by God from fibrimyalgia and the extreme dryness in my left eye that caused stabbing pains. I have required only one incision to remove carcinoid  tumors; some patients have surgery every few years. I could be near death or crippled up due to arthritis, degenerative disk disease or carcinoid cancer. I don't feel very well today, and my blood sugar is shooting up and plunging down, but God has blessed me and I love Him. I love God and He has blessed me. It's a two-way street.