My favorite Psalm is 62.
Today has been a rough day. That tends to happen when you care about people or let people care about you, or let’s face it… if you know people. People can hurt you. Madeleine L’Engle once wrote about how the more we care about people the more vulnerable we become hurt. So if you care about people, you’re gonna hurt. Look no further than Jesus for proof.
So anyway.
The storm in my soul raged on for awhile, and then it just kind of stilled. and in that sudden peace came the words of my favorite Psalm.
He is my rock. and my salvation. He is my fortress. I will never be shaken.
I started thinking about that, being shaken. What does that mean, really? There are quotes about how Christians come with instructions like “Shake before using” or something, but that is kind of silly. What does it really mean to not be shaken?
Then I kept thinking (shocking I know) but about God being my fortress.
I don’t really know what a fortress is. I could probably wikipedia it, but I don’t have much time. But I thought of like… castle walls as a fortress.
Then I, naturally, thought of myself as a beautiful princess on a throne. Naturally.
and I thought about God being the fortress and me being the princess and what that meant, and I realized this.
Not being shaken doesn’t mean that nothing shakes. It doesn’t stop the ground from shaking underneath me, it doesn’t stop the enemy from bombing… it just means that in the midst of all of that destruction and war and chaos, I am able to… do nothing. To do absolutely nothing. The Lord will fight for you, you need only to be still.
God is my fortress. He hasn’t just built a castle wall around me, He himself (in the person of Jesus Christ) BECAME the castle wall, taking every single hit in my place and laying his own life down to keep me safe.
I will let God, my fortress, fight for me. I will not be shaken. But I will be still.
