We sing a beautiful song in our worship service. It’s called”Under His Wings, I am safely abiding.”The meaning of those words are precious to believers.
I am reminded of Psalm 91:4, “He will cover you with his feathers,
and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and defender.”
Our Lord uses the same type of analogy, when he looks over the city of Jerusalem and the coming destruction……
Matthew 23:37“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, asahengathersherchicks under her wings, and you were not willing.
The idea of being “covered with God’s wings” means protection. We are under God’s constant love and care. He never leaves or forsakes us. We pray knowing that we are under the “wings” of our Father.
The Orthodox Jewish men wear the tallit. You have seen them in pictures. This is the shawl which has fringes at the bottom and blue strips. There is deep meaning spiritual meaning to the shawl itself as well as the fringes and the color blue.
When the man wears his tallit he is under the “wings” of God. The tallit when opened resembles “wings”. Wrapping himself in his tallit, he symbolically places himself under God’s sheltering love.
The man enters his “prayer closet” when he puts on the tallit. Didn’t the Lord tell us to go into our closet to pray? He was speaking of this shawl, which was worn by every faithful Jewish man. Of course the Lord wore one himself. Remember the woman who touched the hem of his garment? She received healing when touching the fringes of his tallit.
Even without the physical tallit we too come under God’s protective love through Jesus Christ. We are under His wings and with love and mercy he surrounds us.
Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me,
for in you I take refuge.
I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings
until the disaster has passed. Psalm 57:1
AbideLines 