God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
Our God is a strong shelter and a rock of refuge in Whom we can hide during the storms and difficulties of life. He is our tower of strength, our firm fortress, and our secure stronghold to Whom we can run for protection and safety in an increasingly Christ-rejecting, God-denying, anti-Semitic, and anti-Christian world. But no matter how the nations rage and war against the Lord and His children, we have His unfailing assurance that the Lord of hosts is with us and will never leave us nor forsake us. The God of Jacob is our rock of refuge, our safe stronghold, and our ever present help in time of trouble. As His children we are called to: “Fear not,” for Christ has won the final victory, and we are assured that His triumph is credited to us as well. The shelter that He affords is not to indulge or pamper us but to reassure us, strengthen us, and enable us to stand fast in the evil day. And as Paul tells us in Ephesians: “And having done all to stand,” as the spiritual battle between our righteous God and Satan’s wicked forces continues to rage throughout the godless nations of the world. This psalm encourages us to hope and trust in God, and His power, and providence, and gracious presence with His church in the worst of times, and directs us to give Him the glory of what He has done for us and what He will do: probably it was penned upon occasion of David’s victories over the neighboring nations, and the rest which God gave him from all his enemies round about. We are here taught, to take comfort in God when things look very black and threatening; to mention, to his praise, the great things he had wrought for his church against its enemies; and to assure ourselves that God who has glorified his own name will glorify it yet again, and to comfort ourselves with that. Let us be still and KNOW that God is our refuge, our strength, and our ever-present help in time of need. Never let us forget that the Lord of Hosts IS still with us the God of Jacob IS still our refuge.
Spiritual Steve 