A Refuge!

From September 26:

As usual the days fly past and I notice how quickly events pass us by. a couple of weeks ago the 10^th anniversary of the 911 attacks took place. President Obama as his speech for the observance simply read Psalm 46. It is short and to the point yet speaks into our lives these many years after it was written. They are words of comfort and it reminds us that in our dark times God is a place of refuge and hope. It tells us that in our times of greatest distress and places of conflict in life that sometimes it is best to just be still and know that God is God, experience him as he is, because in him there is victory over troubles. So I share it with you to ponder what challenges in your life may need that refuge and hope:

1. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble
2. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea:
3. Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.  Selah
4. There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
5. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help here and that right early.
6. The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
7. The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah
8. Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolation he hath made in the earth.
9. He makes wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaks the bow, and cuts the spear in sunder: he burns the chariot in the fire.
10. Be still and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
11. The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

Thankful for the refuge,

Rev. Jon Bergen