Daily Manna · Day 221 · August 9
The LORD on My Side
“The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?”
You saw the name come up and your stomach dropped before you had read a word.
The psalm does not pretend the man is harmless. What can man do unto me is a real question and the answer is plenty. He can fire you, sue you, humiliate you in front of people whose opinion you want.
The line before it has already answered him: The LORD is on my side. Not because the man is small.
There is nothing he can do that reaches where you are held.
Daily Manna runs on a two-year cycle. The year two reading for day 221 is Out of the Dust (Psalm 113:7).