Create in Me a Clean Heart: The 40-Day Challenge (Psalms)Sample

God Is a Refuge and Fortress

Psalm 91

After the earthquake (in Zagreb) and Covid-19 in 2020, words like protection, refuge, fortress, and safety took on new meaning. An invisible disease and a natural disaster were beyond our control. Psalm 91 talks about being safe from exactly these kinds of attacks and claims that nothing will harm the one who lives in the shelter of the Most High.

So is this really true? Will we never see harm? No, I think this deals with the location or position of our safety. Like the parable of the house built on the rock, the storms and floods did come, but because of the foundation, the house stood firm. Our safety and security is more connected to its source than the actual circumstances around us. I remember when my children were afraid, they would hold up their hands to be held. I could not really protect them, but the position of being held was enough for them to sleep in peace. They had put themselves in the safest place they knew and they trusted I would not let them go. When we are afraid, how will we face those fears and seek to protect ourselves? The image of this psalm is that we can position ourselves in the arms of our Father, and trust that He is a secure foundation - a refuge and fortress who will never let us go.