When we awake any morning, we don’t know what the day will bring. February 28th, it meant the US and Israel made preemptive strikes to end the Iranian regime.
I have a friend from Iran whose family fled as refugees. She tells horror stories and has prayed for this new day for her homeland.
I’ve taken nine lengthy trips to Israel over the last 42 years totaling 135 days in the land. (I describe those in my book, A Traveling Grandma’s Guide to Israel: Adventures, Wit, and Wisdom.) Two trips turned out to be times when Israel came under attack. I learned valuable lessons about safe rooms and bomb shelters. Israeli law requires new building structures to include reinforced safe rooms where people can survive.
On one trip, my team and I landed in Israel two hours after the 2012 Gaza War broke out . During our daytime travels or nighttime rest, we stayed aware of how close we were to the nearest safe room. Our hostess and I got up early each morning to hear radio news from Israel’s Defense Forces about which bombing and combat targets were expected that day. The broadcaster would say, “If you are four miles from today’s target area and hear sirens, you have sixty seconds to get to your bunker or safe room. If you are two miles away, you have thirty seconds. One mile means you have 15 seconds. If you are closer than that, STAY in your safe room.”
We listened and stayed aware of how long it would take us to scramble to a safe room at any given moment.
But that information has a spiritual application. The Lord impressed me that He is our safe room. There is no need to go in and out. We can abide in Him.
The photo is of the safe room/bomb shelter at Kalia Kibbutz where I love to stay next to Qumran where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found.
Psalm 91 says it best. 1“He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.”
It’s crucial to know where to go in times of attack. It’s more important day and night, in good times and bad, to abide in the One who is Safety.
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