Friday, April 10, 2015
TEXT: PSALM 46:1-5
Key Verse: “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble” (Psalm 46:1).
Man always seeks refuge in physical structures, worldly ideas and projects that have proved unhelpful. For instance, man attempted immortality outside God’s plan, with the ancient alchemists once trying to produce the fabled elixir of life to arrest death and make man live on earth forever. It was, and remains, a futile approach in the face of the challenges the human race has experienced.
The power and ability to confront the fears, uncertainties and adversities of life are found in God. He is the invincible Fortress! God is the true and lasting Refuge from the danger the world has brought on itself through sin. He is the veritable security from the storms of life. He is always on the side of those who trust Him to take care of all their anxieties.
He is “a very present help in trouble”. God is available for His people and wants us to call upon Him in times of need. He does not want His people to run helter-skelter seeking help in gods or philosophies that cannot deliver or comfort. Our God has a “river” that continually flows with His grace, glory and power; water that refreshes the believer and makes him stand when others are falling in trying times.
In the midst of great natural disasters, evil tidings, persecutions, political upheavals, apostasy, economic recessions, violence, conflicts and wars and all other Satan-induced unrest, “will not we fear though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea, though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof... the LORD of hosts is with us”.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: PSALM 61 - 67
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: God is always available to help.
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