I've Got Your Back

November 1

Perhaps you’re dealing with an individual at work whose shifty behavior requires that you be forever on your guard regarding any interaction you might have with him. Perhaps you have a spouse whose inconvenient memory lapses necessitate your continual ‘checking up’ on the successful completion of any responsibility he assumes.

It would be wonderful if everyone simply completed the tasks designated to him so you could go about yours, knowing confidently that something outside your sphere would not rear its head at some point in the future to cause you a problem. Nobody wants to be an unsuspecting dupe, so you stay on guard—and being forever alert is tiring.

There is a place of rest you can have as you shoulder the oversight of tasks that are not your own, for the Lord says in Proverbs 2:7, 8, “God holds victory in store for the upright; He is a shield to those whose walk is blameless, for He guards the course of the just and protects the way of His faithful ones.”

He’s saying in essence, ‘I’ve got your back.’ You, therefore, can abide in the confidence of knowing you needn’t keep your finger on the pulse of every task of everyone around you. God will assure that you are protected from the consequences of their oversights, for as II Chronicles 29:17 says, “…God…(is) pleased with integrity.”