Shade At Your Right Hand
Shadow
Have you ever done something in your past that you are not very proud of? Something that you regret and wish that you could go back and change? Maybe something others keep bringing up time and time again? Maybe people treat you different since they heard about it? Well, I think you get the point, it might be something that you feel follows you everywhere you go. You may find yourself not wanting to go around people that have heard about that incidence or know about your past. It is like the dark shadow that follows you everywhere!
Well, I am not perfect! Shocker I know!!! 
None of us are perfect! We all have made like a bazillion mistakes. And I think that we all are in the same boat in that we have all thought about those questions above or at one time or another felt the way I was describing.
This year is a very unique year in that it is my 20th high school reunion and I would like to attend. I would be around people that I haven’t seen in a long time. People that might remember me from a time when maybe I wasn’t living the way I should. I remember a time when I took a strong stand for Jesus in high school and a friend of mine asked me how long I had been a Christian. I told him that I had always been a Christian and he was very surprised by that and said “I never knew that.” What does that say about my testimony back then? I know-I know I am ashamed of that. We haven’t always done right, we haven’t always lived right, but if you are reading this it is not too late to start.
God has promised in His Word that “if we will confess our sins, He is faithful and just AND WILL forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). How great of a promise is that? He gives us a new life and we become a new creation in Him. He will always be with us through the mountains and valleys of life and will never leave us nor forsake us. Instead of having a dark shadow that follows you around everywhere, God will be your “shade at your right hand” to protect you and watch over you (Psalm 121:5).
