This is a psalm for difficult days; a
refuge and strength psalm for earth changing, mountain shaking, rock your
world, waters foaming, troubled times. Of course, troubled times don’t need to
be that noisy. Difficult days are more often suffered in silence and those
tottering on the brink of despair are “still” but not in the “Be still and know
that I am God!” silence. The stoic stiff upper lip isolation in the face
of those things that rightly make one tremble is not what “therefore we will not
fear” is all about. The help that comes
at break of dawn is the Lord of hosts with us, as in we not me. When one
rejoices, all rejoice. When one suffers, all suffer. We’re in this thing
together. So be still before the Lord but do not be silent about the very
present help you need in times of trouble.
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