Sometimes You Just Need Your Daddy

When I was 12 years old, our youth group in Reno was doing our bit for the kingdom by "passing out tracks" (don't get me started.)

I still remember that I was wearing my new, big white faux fur coat when he grabbed me... the guy came out of a bar we were walking past and just grabbed me, poured beer on me and tried pulling me inside. I was terrified...but only for a moment. Because out of nowhere came my Daddy! He had been driving down the street and stopped the car in the mid-traffic and rescued me!

My Father was watching from His STRONG TOWER and rescued me from my enemy.

In my adult life I have experienced the rescuing hand of my Father in some very profound ways. So profound, in fact, that the stories do not translate into words well, so I must speak in general terms.

I was faced with a spiritual and physical evil at one time, so much so, that I feared for my life and those in my household. At that face-to-face moment I cried out in a loud voice, "JESUS!" ...and the evil immediately and palpably disappeared. This was VERY REAL and once again, my Daddy saved me!

I ran into the strong tower and was saved. I knew instinctively that demons could NOT stand against the name of Jesus. It was then that I knew what it meant to have Him as my ROCK.

Lest you think I am over-spiritualizing this, just remember I EXPERIENCED IT. It is not a story I read somewhere nor was it a dream. This sort of experience took the concept of Jesus being my strong tower to a whole new level.

I was trying to get an idea of what a "strong tower" was in the biblical times, so I could get the context in which it was written: "The name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous run into it and are saved and protected." (Prov. 18:10 - my paraphrase.)

"Since David pictured God as a tower and not just a plain tower but a HIGH tower, he most likely was using a picture of what he knew a tower to be. In the Biblical days, these towers were either circular or square in shape and varied in height from 15 feet to 50 feet. One archaeologist found an unfinished tower, which had been built to the height of 60 feet and was 12 feet thick. What David was referring to here was that he experienced not only a place where the enemy didn't have access but also a watch-tower where God Himself would detect the coming of the enemy at a distance."

I love it that my Father is watching to see the enemy coming and protecting me.

This song is one of my themes: He is MY STRONG TOWER!