Friday... Have you found this to be true?...

Friday... Have you found this to be true? You must go through times of trouble to find this to be true.

Psalm 46:1 (NLT) says, "God is our refuge and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble." If you know that to be true then you have something to hold on to in these days that we are going through. Just thinking of that fact takes me back to different times that I can remember when I was up against a wall, not knowing what to do, facing situations that I couldn't handle but I knew God was there, I knew he was my strength, that he was my refuge.

The Psamist goes on, verse 2 "So we will not fear when earthquakes come and the mountains crumble into the sea." Our world has really been shaken, hasn't it? And here is our confidence, here is our faith, here is where our experiencing other times of trouble comes through, here is where our remembering that God is our refuge, God is our strength brings us through.

He then says in confidence, verse 3, "Let the oceans roar and foam. Let the mountains tremble as the waters surge." We can put our confidence in people, but many times they fail us, we can put our confidence in the government or other institutions, but they don't always come through.

I am a big baseball fan, a Los Angeles Dodgers' fan and they are in the NLCS trying to win 4 games to get to the World Series and they have won only 1 and the Braves have won 3. I want to really believe that they will come back but my confidence is shaken because they have been here before and haven't made it to the WS since in the 80's. I'm not real confident of them because of past failures. They are not my refuge and strength.

But God is. I remember his being always ready to help in other times of trouble and I now believe that he will be ready again. So let the oceans roar, let the mountains tremble, God is on the job. He has been and he will be my refuge and strength. Verse 11 says, "The Lord of Heaven's Armies is here among us; the God of Israel is our fortress." Yes, yes #todaysbeginning

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