This I declare about the Lord: He alone is my refuge, my place of safety; he is my God, and I trust him.
Psalm 91:2 (NLT)
How many times have you wanted to escape?
To get away for a rest and relief from something you thought you just could not bear any more?
To find a place of safety?
God is this refuge and place of safety for us, friends. This is something that the psalmist wanted to make sure he declared about the Lord. I too, want to add my declaration: God is my refuge.
Without turning to God alone for refuge, without making Him alone our place of trust, we are just spinning our wheels.
I spent a lot of years chasing after lesser gods for safety and refuge—either looking to my own ideas about how to be safe, or running after someone else’s idea of what security looked like. By no means have I arrived at a place of perfection with this. But I have realized the brokenness of those old dead-end ways of thinking and problem solving, and I have found the undeniable faithfulness of God.
He has never failed to sustain me. He has never failed to guard me.
Does that mean I have never faced a hard thing? No.
But it means I have never faced a hard thing alone, and I have never faced a hard thing that put me beyond the reach of a loving God’s arms. And when I have the next hard thing, I know that I can run into the shelter of God. He is a refuge and a source of great peace.
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