The God Of Jacob Is Our Fortress

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, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day. Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts.

The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.

Come and see what the Lord has done, the desolations he has brought on the earth. He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth. He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the shields with fire. He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.

Psalm 46:1-11

Eric Liddell was memorialized in the film Chariots of Fire. He won the 1924 Paris Olympiad before going to China as a missionary. He was interned in a Japanese prison camp. After months of captivity he developed what doctors feared was a brain tumor.

At one point Liddell requested a nearby band play, “Be Still, My Soul.” That beautiful hymn helped Liddell face an illness that he quickly died from.

We are told to be still, and know that God is God.

God’s whisper of comfort quiets the noise of our own trials.

Our Daily Bread – November 3, 2013