He wants to provide us with the power to endure life’s hard times. He also wants to be our internal strength. God promises more than just protection from the externals. God is our refuge, but He won’t take the job unless we let Him. God alone can provide the security we need when the foundations of our life get ripped out from under us. I will be a place of absolute safety for you.” You can come to Me, and I will wrap My arms around you and I won’t let anything touch you. Rather than fleeing to a big steel building or tunneling underground for safety, we can turn to the God of the universe who says, “I personally will be your refuge. God is a refuge, a place of protection from external threats, a place we can run to, shut the door, and know we’ll be okay. Even if, he proposes, the earth gives way and the mountains fall into the sea and are swallowed up, we will have no reason to fear because God will be with us. The psalmist is very clear right from the start: “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.” To underscore this fact, the psalmist talks about the destruction of the two most stable and seemingly indestructible things he can think of. 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. (Psalm 46:1-3) God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
