Do you ever feel like you are all alone and no one cares for you? Do you ever feel like you are battling all by yourself? Trust me, I've been there....but God is there all the time to fight for you. He is our refuge!
I was listening to a message the other day and something that was said caught my attention - I don't remember who said it, but the preacher said,"Even if you feel you are all alone in this world, and that no one else is there for you, and that no one else loves you...God is ALWAYS (yes, he did scream "always") there for you." That really stuck with me and made me ponder...do I really believe that? I know there have been times (I'm only human after all....yes, I know....shocker, eh?) that I have doubted God, that I have questioned God, etc. However, there came a point where I had to make up my mind that I was going to "let God be God" in EVERYTHING...not just in the parts of my life that I was "comfortable" letting God have. I had to give God EVERYTHING and let Him be God in EVERY part of my life.
It is so very nice to know that God is watching out for us no matter what. To know that no matter what I am going through in life, no matter where I am, no matter what I am battling and struggling with....God is my refuge in strength.
I am really enjoying my reading in the Psalms. It's like every day, God is saying something "new" to me. This Psalm really spoke to me....mostly just to let me know that God -IS- my refuge and my strength. No matter what....He's got my back :-)
1God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
2Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
4There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
5God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
6The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
7The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
8Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
9He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
10Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
11The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
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