I've been thinking all week about Psalm 46:
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What does it mean to you that God is a refuge and a fortress? How does it affect the way you live your everyday life?
1 God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.
2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
3 though its waters roar and foam
and the mountains quake with their surging.
Selah
4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy place where the Most High dwells.
5 God is within her, she will not fall;
God will help her at break of day.
6 Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall;
he lifts his voice, the earth melts.
7 The LORD Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.
Selah
8 Come and see the works of the LORD,
the desolations he has brought on the earth.
9 He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth;
he breaks the bow and shatters the spear,
he burns the shields [b] with fire.
10 "Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth."
11 The LORD Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.
Selah
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What does it mean to you that God is a refuge and a fortress? How does it affect the way you live your everyday life?
Comments
His mercy keeps me like a strong tower! Satan can't break past His mercy!
In everyday life clinging to this truth helps me to be a place of refuge for others in my life. It motivates me to live a life that, though I seek to live in the holiness God calls me too, invites others who aren't (just like I don't always)to feel they don't have to pretend or walk on eggshells around me. I think of my husband, who does not know the Lord... when I remember that God is my refuge, though He is perfect in all His ways and I am not and He welcomes me into to His loving arms, I want to welcome my husband into my life.
I love meditating on the Psalms!
sheila
At this time, it means that although God is calling us (my husband & I) on a different path than our church we can stand strong knowing that He is our strength and that He will help us.
This weekend, I heard it said that "Selah" means to pause /to ponder. I love that!
Thanks for sharing your heart!
~ Leanne