“God is our refuge and strength….” (v. 1)

Psalm 46 returns to a familiar theme: God is our refuge and our strength.

Why do the psalmists keep coming back to it? Why would God repeatedly inspire this revelation in their hymns? Because we need to keep coming back to it. Our prayers—our joys and our sorrows and our confessions—are ultimately rooted in our utter dependency. We who have known instability and weakness need to come home to our Helper and Strength, in worship.

Here’s what makes this Psalm’s reminder of that so special:

The psalmist (inspired) gives us a contrasting picture. First, there’s the chaos and tumult of the world around us, which is trembling and toppling and roaring and quaking, wholly unstable. Then, there’s the place where God is, “the holy dwelling place of the Most High” (v. 4). It’s a place that will not be toppled (v. 5).

And that place is our home, our hope. Whatever happens here cannot shake what is there—and there is where we will be with Him, forever.

Did you come back to the Psalms for a picture of security?

Then know that your hope and your help are as secure as heaven itself.

— Tyler