This assurance from the Psalms remains one to hold close, to read when days get long, to memorize when we walk through the valley of the shadow of death:

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.

The Lord remains close at our side, a fixed residency. The concept of omnipresence comes to mind, how God exists everywhere at the same time. Or you might say that the Lord can be constantly encountered anywhere in the universe by everyone in the universe all in the same instant.

No matter where I am, or what I’m facing, God is my refuge and strength—always.

That’s good news, a profoundly simple promise within our grasp.

Psalm 46 in Through the Bible in 2024

Photo by Wilfried Santer