The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer. My God is my rock in whom I take refuge.

Psalm 18, verse 2.

Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread.

Leave it with God was written by Leslie Coe and read by Stephen Tabor.

Psalm 18, verses 1 and 2 and 16 through 19.

I love you, Lord, my strength.

The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.

My God is my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation,

my stronghold. And now picking up at verse 16. He reached down from on high and took hold of me.

He drew me out of deep waters. He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me.

They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the Lord was my support.

He brought me out into a spacious place.

He rescued me because he delighted in me.

Leave it with God, written by Leslie Coe.

Perched high on the climbing wall, Sarah could feel panic rising as her weakening fingers began losing grip on the handholds. Just how hard will I hit the ground,

she wondered. But the instructor kept calling out assurances from below. As the belayer, tethered to the

other end of the rope tied to Sarah's harness through a pulley, his weight would hold her if she fell.

I'm much heavier than you, he yelled. Just let go. So, she did, and simply swung away from the wall

to dangle safely in the air. The incident gave Sarah a new perspective of the picture of God in

Psalm 182. The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer, my God is my rock, my stronghold.

Sarah observed, God is so much heavier than all my problems.

I can let go of my worries and fears, and he'll catch me.

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