Psalm 46:1-3 “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling.”
That God is “a very present help” to us who believe is a profoundly, comforting truth! He is “present.” That is, He is never, ever, in any way imaginable absent! He is never missing. He is never sleeping, slumbering, unaware, unknowing, uncaring, unseeing. He is present. Always!
He is a “very” present help. He is not only there, He is really, truly, faithfully, lovingly there! He is “very” near us and with us. He is watching over us with an eternal love, an infinite wisdom, and a Father’s heart!
He is a very present “help.” He is always as close as our next breath, as our help. He is our true refuge and strength. Without Him, we could never make it. With Him, there is nothing we cannot make it through!
Since God is a very present help in trouble for us who believe, fear gives way to faith! Where God is present and trusted in, fear of others or circumstances is absent! Notice particularly the kind of earth-shattering, cataclysmic circumstances the psalmist describes here. He does not have little “bumps in the road” in mind here. No, he is thinking of overwhelming, traumatizing, excruciating experiences. The kind of “life” that feels like the Rocky Mountains just imploded! It is then, when life is enormous, shaky, and out of control, that we can rest in God. He is a “very” “present” “help,” especially “in trouble!”
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