{"id":4018,"date":"2025-07-24T07:33:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T07:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=4018"},"modified":"2025-07-16T01:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T01:35:29","slug":"a-place-of-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/a-place-of-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"A Place of Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: right;\"><strong>Thursday, July 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>A Place of Safety<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He led me to a place of safety; he rescued me because he delights in me.\u00a0<strong>Psalm 18:19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I recently climbed Dunn\u2019s River Falls in Jamaica. Before the climb, our guide explained which rocks were safe and which ones were to avoid, some were stable, others dangerously slippery. A few minutes in, I lost my footing. I felt uncertain and overwhelmed, unsure where to step next. That\u2019s when the tour guide came alongside, took my hand, and helped me safely navigate through the rushing waters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That moment is a perfect picture of what David describes in Psalm 18:19:\u00a0<em>\u201cHe led me to a place of safety.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>David had just come out of a long, harsh season fleeing enemies, facing dangers, and navigating wilderness trials. But God didn\u2019t just remove him from danger; He led him into something better. A place of peace. A spacious place. A future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God\u2019s rescue is never just about escape. It\u2019s about restoration. He pulls us from the rushing waters and sets our feet in a wide, stable space, a place of peace, purpose, and freedom. This\u00a0<em>\u201cspacious place\u201d<\/em>\u00a0represents more than just physical safety; it speaks of emotional and spiritual release, of God opening a new chapter after a hard season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And why does He do it? Because He delights in us. You are not just rescued out of trouble, you are led into joy, into purpose, into a fuller life, because your Father delights in you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can you think of a time when God didn\u2019t just pull you out of something, but brought you into a better place? Are you currently trusting Him to lead you somewhere new?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>Father, thank You for not only rescuing me from danger but for leading me into places of peace and purpose. You delight in me, and that truth fills me with hope. Thank You for setting my feet in a spacious place. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, July 24 A Place of Safety He led me to a place of safety; he rescued me because he delights in me.\u00a0Psalm 18:19 I recently climbed Dunn\u2019s River Falls in Jamaica. Before the climb, our guide explained which rocks were safe and which ones were to avoid, some were stable, others dangerously slippery. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4019,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions\/4019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}