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

God Is Our Refuge and Strength

Psalm 46

Everything around us is falling. Even the smallest inconvenience causes a wave of emotions that swallow us whole. Faith that was supposed to move mountains is shaken, and our heart is sinking to the depths of the sea. The pace of life makes it so easy to get lost in that chaos. We focus on working on our own plans, and we get upset when we can’t.

When things do not go the way that we thought they would, we get mad at God, and we complain. Forgetting that he is “an ever-present help in trouble”, forgetting that He is our refuge when we struggle. We run away from God when we need Him most. He says “Be still, and know that I am God.” Finding time to be still and be with God when our city is under attack seems counter intuitive. The world expects us to react, to do things. And yet people in the fortress are expected to survive in stillness, they have the river of living water coursing through their city, providing all that they need while they are sitting still in the fortress. Our perspective only shows us the waters roaring and foaming, mountains trembling and shaking, but God is with us. Our fortress will not fall.