We Will Not Fear

Michael E. Wood
February 10, 2011

Psalm 46 begins with the words, “To the Choirmaster, of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear…”

If this were the complete context of this passage, the children of God would find ample reason to rejoice in God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and sing His praise. He by His Spirit and written Word reveals several aspects of His character in relation to Who He Is (our Refuge, our Strength, our Help); Where He Is (Very Present) and Why (in trouble). Job 14:1 says, “Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.” Every one who is of a conscious mind to understand can identify with being in trouble to varying degrees.

But He does not stop there. He continues with, “…though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah.”

Many of us have had experience with floods of differing measures, earthquakes, or other seismic disasters of which God has brought forth for His own purposes. By way of technology, most of us in America have caught glimpses of the effects of catastrophic “natural disasters” as sent by His hand without much thought to the fact that it is purely by His pleasure that we were not there. At times some of us with compassion have given in some small way to send relief to those affected. Still others have been more sacrificial and have gone to help in person, while countless have sought to help through prayer.

Since the great flood of Noah’s day, man has not seen the magnitude of what is described in this passage, and only by the gift of faith from God are we enabled to see that which is to come. If the earth as we know it, gave way to the point that every mountain was moved into the heart of the sea and trembled as the waters roared and foamed at its swelling, not a soul on the face of the earth would escape its effects.

If God were not your Refuge, you would have no place to hide! If He were not your strength, you would be absolutely helpless! And if He were not a Very Present Help, then you would be without hope!

If you have been born again by the Spirit of the Living God, you know exactly what I am talking about. For that is the place you found yourself to be in spiritually, when God through His infinite mercy revealed to you your nakedness, your helplessness, and your hopelessness in the magnitude of your sins against Him. Deserving of His Almighty wrath, which is beyond words infinitely more horrid than the events described, God for His glory saved you! The sinless Son of God was made sin by God the Father on the cross of Calvary that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. Jesus bore the wrath which was our due, as He offered himself as the One sufficient substitute to not only appease the Father, but to please the Father. Through His atoning sacrifice He lifted us to a position far greater that what we lost in Adam. Therefore we will praise Him both now and forever by the strength and the power of His Spirit. For Christ is our Refuge! He Is our Strength! He Is our Very Present Help in trouble through all time and our Habitation through all eternity! Amen!

This contemporary song of praise came forth as I opened my Bible to begin the day with reading Psalm 46. Though the words of which I have previously written are woefully inadequate to describe the Majesty of God and the greatness of the salvation of which He by His grace has made us partakers of, may God be glorified through the praise of His Son, who Is our eternal Choirmaster!

Though the mountains be moved
To the heart of the sea,
Though the earth be removed
And no longer shall be….

We will not fear,
For God Is our Refuge!
We will not fear,
For God Is our Strength!
We will not fear,
You’re present here with us!
And in all trouble
We know we will always be Thine!

Though the nations shall rage
And the kingdoms shall sway,
When He utters His voice
And the earth melts away….

Present with us
The Lord of all glory!
Present with us
Is God The Most High!
Present with us
Christ Is our Stronghold!
And streams from His River
Will make glad His city sublime!

Though He brings desolations
And makes wars to cease
To the end of the earth
Hear His voice then in peace….

Be still and know
That Christ Is exalted!
Be still and know
That I Am your God!
Be still and know
That I Am with you!
And for My glory
I will be beyond all of time!

So now if you’re broken
With things from you torn,
Then look to Christ Jesus
By whom we are borne….

The KING of all kings,
The Light of all glory!
The KING of all kings,
Whose face we shall see!
The KING of all kings,
Whose infinite glory,
Is more worth than all other creatures
Though they be divine!