God is our refuge and strength, an ever present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1
Just listening to the news can send me into a tailspin. I hear reports of the dollars value dropping, banks closing, unemployment rising. On top of that, I am part of what they are reporting. Being self employed in an industry that has seen a huge slow down, right now things are tough.
I think I'm starting to get it. All this fear (whatever its source), is not very good for me. Fear only make me feel abandoned, sort of like an orphan, who has been overlooked and forgotten, left alone.
Hey, wait a minute, I'm adopted! I have a Father who loves me! So why do I sometimes feel afraid? Why do I run to fear and not my Father?
Over the past few months my family and I have been learning to chose to run to our "ever present help". Doing this has been amazing. God really is our refuge and our strength.
Jake, my 8 year old found this scripture the other day in Habakkuk 3:17-19 "Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vine, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior. The sovereign Lord is my strength."
We have been choosing to rejoice in the Lord, even when we don't feel like it. What a difference running to the the answer has been. Each time I inch farther away from fear, I see more clearly, he ain't no friend of mine, and that makes me run faster to my wonderful Daddy.
How long will I keep running to God? Look at the rest of the scripture I started with: "God is our refuge and strength, an ever present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea." I guess that means till the end.
