Bible Verse of the Day Wednesday March 15th, 2023

Psalm 91:3 Surely, he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence.

There are two distinct promises and guarantees from God in this verse from the 91st Psalm. First, God will protect us from the entrapment of the fowler's evil snare, and secondly, He will defend us while we are in the fatal web of the fowler's trap. All of us have, at points in time in our life, been faced with the allurement of a snare or lure from the master fowler, Satan. Most of us have also found ourselves in the confines of one of the evil one's clutches. Sometimes, God will use the trouble we will encounter in the Incarceration of one of Satan's confinements to help us grow spiritually. As a small child cannot yet comprehend the danger of not looking both ways when crossing a street, the child of God sometimes cannot understand the dangers of a snare they have not yet found themselves.

When we, as followers and believers in Christ Jesus, through faith in Him, choose to look to God for our protection, we will want to help and comfort others trapped or lured by the snare of Satan. The life surrendered to Christ is under God's divine protection from Satan's temptations: the fowler's snare. However, some long for what the world calls "the good old days," when Satan did not have to expel as much workforce to lure us into his traps. Satan will use that allurement to draw one down some rocky path where his snare waits at the uncertain corridor's end.

None of us can confidently say that we will never let ourselves fall into one of Satan's snares. But, unfortunately, being human means being susceptible to temptation, and as long as we are in this life, Satan is still the "Prince of Darkness" (Ephesians 6:12; 2:2). One of the fatal mistakes that any human, child of God or not, can make is to underestimate the power and lure Satan has over humanity. But, on the other hand, we should never overestimate him either; although he is powerful, he is not all-powerful; only God holds that distinction. 

Paul tells us in second timothy that knowing the truth of God's Word will help us, as Paul puts it, to "come to our senses" and be able to avoid the snares and traps of Satan (2 Timothy 2:26). Knowledge of the Holy Word of God and the wisdom to use it in our lives, along with a consecrated prayer life, total surrender to Christ Jesus and service to Him and the people around us, will not only protect us from the snares of Satan but will illuminate the paths to the pitfalls, to better help us avoid them.