Daily Devotion in Psalm 46

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Daily Nugget:
As with many Psalms, there is a prophetic message in Psalm 46.  There is also comfort and safety in this chapter for today’s Christians.  

One emotion experienced during the Tribulation, Christ’s reign, and today, is fear.  Most experience fears throughout their lifetime, be it fear of being overcome by adversaries, health issues, family problems, financial strains, standing up for what is right,  and a myriad of other traumas.

Fear can alter success, allow us to make wrong choices, cripple our dreams, and handicap our thinking. This debilitating emotion is often the root of panic, apprehension, anxiety, phobias, worry,  and nightmares. However, concern about most problems is unnecessary if we draw close to God, obey, and trust Him.

Psalm 46:1 reminds the believer that God is a safe hiding place (“refuge”).  When obedient and guided by Him, He gives us strength and will help us in times of trouble.
“... God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” Psalm 46:1b

No matter what happens, He is our security. Be an earthquake so powerful that mountains collapse into the sea (Psalm 46:2), we are protected. If facing surging floods, we can still be safe.  Be not alarmed.  Be not apprehensive. Comfortably meditate (“Selah”) that God will never leave or forsake you.  You are in good Hands.  Nothing can happen to a believer that God does not know about or allow!
“Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” Heb. 13:5

Today’s Thought: 
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” — President F.D. Roosevelt
Words to Understand:
Alamoth: female voice
Selah: think and meditate on these things
Sons of Korah: sons of Moses’ cousin, Korah, who were singers

Today’s Reading:
Psalm 46
1 To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
6 ¶ The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
7 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.