Fruit flies are everywhere in our house. Patty is peeling and cutting up apples in order to make apple sauce. I love apple sauce, but I hate fruit flies. I wonder where they come from, and why when apples are in our house here they come. I have a glass of apple juice that I am drinking while reading and writing, and I am sure I have swallowed several dozen flies trapped in my juice. I googled fruit flies to see if I was going to get some weird disease ingesting them, but they appear harmless. They are so small you can’t even count them as a source of protein. They don’t bite and rarely even land on me, but sometimes, one hovers an inch away between my eyes and makes me cross-eyed.

Fruit flies are just big enough to see. Like fruit flies, there are germs and bacteria all around me that I can’t see, and I suspect they are also in my apple juice. And then there are demons everywhere around us. I certainly hope none of those dudes got into my apple juice. There is a huge unseen realm around us that is real, annoying, and dangerous.

God has many roles in our lives, and one of them is protector. There are dangers everywhere around us, and we are incapable of protecting ourselves from most of them. Check out this Psalm. I have memorized it and often fall asleep while meditating on it running it through my mind.

Psalms 3:1-7 O Lord, how my adversaries have increased!
Many are rising up against me.
Many are saying of my soul,
“There is no deliverance for him in God.”
But You, O Lord, are a shield about me,
My glory, and the One who lifts my head.
I was crying to the Lord with my voice,
And He answered me from His holy mountain.
I lay down and slept;
I awoke, for the Lord sustains me.
I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people
Who have set themselves against me round about.
Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God!
For You have smitten all my enemies on the cheek;
You have shattered the teeth of the wicked.