Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like; he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. Luke 6:47
These days I try to sing the hymn A Mighty Fortress Is our God written by Martin Luther every morning because it is based on Psalm 46. Psalm 46 begins with “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though ……”. I read Psalm 46 because I need it now when there is so much instability in our country.
This country and its people are in trouble and there is much fear. We are afraid of a virus. We are afraid of a takeover by socialism or China. We are afraid of riots and chaos that comes from lawlessness. We are afraid of losing our freedom to speak and even losing democracy. These are big troubles and we have every reason to be afraid. We try to elect leaders who are strong enough to stand for policies that would keep us from these troubles but thinking people know that no government leader is strong enough to save us. We should vote because it is our duty and we should do all we can to make a country stable. But even good leaders are not enough. Only God can save us from the troubles we have. It’s God who is our refuge and our strength and our present help in trouble. The question is, where do we find God when we need refuge and strength and help?
We find him in his written words – the Bible. It is true that Christians have God’s Spirit living within us, but where he speaks clearly to us is in the Scriptures. It’s in the Bible that we find what we are to believe, how we are to think, how we are to act, and even how we are to vote! We surely cannot trust the media to guide us! Our troubles will only increase if we have leaders who only listen to their own rhetoric and want to ban the Bible from every place where it can be an influence, especially on young minds. We need the Bible if we ever want stability in our country.
We need to meditate on God’s Word day and night (Ps. 1:2). That’s the only way we will ever be stable.
Read Psalm 46 again and again and meditate on its comforting words:
“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth!” Remember that “The Lord of hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our fortress.”
That’s why Christians can be stable - no matter what the news!
Yes Rosemary believers who live what they know are stable. "Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed for I am your God." Isaiah 41:10. As believers each of us must hold up the weak among us when they stumble into society's false narrative. Daily and individually we are responsible to become more like Christ. One additional thing I began doing is texting Bible verses to the spiritually frail in my RBS group daily. Some simply are weak in the daily study of the Word.
ReplyDeleteThanks for continuing to encourage us.