Weekly Devotional

January 16, 2024

The Morning After Devotional:

Psalm 46:1

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Have you ever felt you were all alone in your times of trouble? Sure you have, we all have traveled the lonely road of troubled times. Well, there is hope for this horror within the pages of God’s Word. The psalmist proclaimed in this passage, hope is not alone in our days of despair because help accompanies our hope. He said, regardless to what we may encounter, we have hope and help through our God. He shared, we have a Person to whom we turn, “God is” because of the Sovereign existence of our God, He can and will fill any absenteeism in our lives with His own sufficiency according to our needs. Further, the author declared, we have a Place to where we can run, “God is our refuge” a refuge was literally a shelter. God in our times of hopelessness will be our shelter. The writer concluded the stanza by saying, we have a Protection that we can depend on, ”a very present help in trouble”. Unlike others in our lives, God is Omni-present, He is always there, not limited by time nor space. Further, He is not merely present but He is our help. Therefore, my Christian friends until the next time, be comforted knowing that even when we feel hopeless with God, we have sufficient help to continue our journey. 

Let us pray: 

Father, thank you for all you have done, are doing, and the assurance that you are there for our future. In the name of your Son and our sibling Savior, we pray. Amen. 

G. L. Sanders
Senior Pastor, Mercy Seat M. B.  Church