At Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, we continued in our Deuteronomy sermon series with our senior pastor preaching from Deuteronomy 33:24-25 on Sunday, September 17. Bad news or scary events--like Hurricane Irma, a recent ISIS bomb in Europe, and the Equifax data breach due to hackers--can fill us with fear and make us insecure. Yet God has called us to go out into the world without fear, and God always combats that which he does not want for his people. He doesn't want fear for us in our lives, and we see in this blessing to Asher that whether the translation says "bolts of iron" or "shoes of iron" we receive the Lord's protection. We can be confident that in God and with God we are safe, and we can move out confidently with the authority to trample snakes and scorpions.
