Psalm 46 - A Strong Wise Friend That Speaks Directly To Your Trouble
GOD IS MORE PRESENT TO YOU THAN YOUR TROUBLE
There is nothing that disorients our souls quite like trouble. If you’ve lived long enough, you have experienced seasons of life in which it feels like your world is falling apart. Times when everything seems to be giving way. When you are facing your worst case scenario. If you haven’t experienced trouble yet, you will. Jesus told his disciples that, “in the world you will have tribulation” (Jn 16:33) and that, in fact, everyday has “its own trouble” (Mt 6:33). What is God’s reorienting-remedy to our soul-disorienting trouble?
Listen to this last Sunday’s sermon on Psalm 46. How can we have peace in the midst of trouble? Because, “The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress” (Ps 46:7, 11). Psalm 46 grabs us by the shoulders and urges us to stop trying to outmaneuver our circumstances and to quit seeking peace apart from God. He is God, we are not, and in our trouble we must rest in him.