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The One in Whom I Take Refuge
Ps 144:2
There are several wonderful attributes applied to God here but I would like to focus this study on "The One in Whom I Take Refuge". So many times HE has been my refuge. A refuge is a shelter or protection from danger. A place of safety. One to whom we have recourse for aid, relief, or escape.
From a very young age I learned this place of refuge. I've spent many a hour in it. I can't say that it always changed the circumstances, although they eventually did change, but it changed me. From that constant running to Him I learned to dwell in His presence and take refuge in it.
As we've already seen He is The God Who Sees and as already pointed out He sees everything. He arrives on the scene, wherever it may be, and He calls out to us. He's not looking for us because He does not know where we are, but I believe He wants us to know where He is and He wants us to come running to Him and allow Him to be our refuge. It reminds me of a Marmaduke comic I saw years ago of Marmaduke sitting up on his haunches and his little boy standing inside between Marmadukes body and his front legs. The boy is looking out at another boy who looks angry and the caption says, "come in here and say that".
There is such peace in that place of refuge. The more you run to it, the more it will be your first place to run. The more you stay there. His refuge is a wonderful place to live.
*song added in the teaching post
Ps 144:2
Ps 144:2 New King James Version said:My lovingkindness and my fortress,
My high tower and my deliverer,
My shield and the One in whom I take refuge,
Who subdues my people under me.
There are several wonderful attributes applied to God here but I would like to focus this study on "The One in Whom I Take Refuge". So many times HE has been my refuge. A refuge is a shelter or protection from danger. A place of safety. One to whom we have recourse for aid, relief, or escape.
From a very young age I learned this place of refuge. I've spent many a hour in it. I can't say that it always changed the circumstances, although they eventually did change, but it changed me. From that constant running to Him I learned to dwell in His presence and take refuge in it.
As we've already seen He is The God Who Sees and as already pointed out He sees everything. He arrives on the scene, wherever it may be, and He calls out to us. He's not looking for us because He does not know where we are, but I believe He wants us to know where He is and He wants us to come running to Him and allow Him to be our refuge. It reminds me of a Marmaduke comic I saw years ago of Marmaduke sitting up on his haunches and his little boy standing inside between Marmadukes body and his front legs. The boy is looking out at another boy who looks angry and the caption says, "come in here and say that".
There is such peace in that place of refuge. The more you run to it, the more it will be your first place to run. The more you stay there. His refuge is a wonderful place to live.
*song added in the teaching post
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