GOD Alone: Our Refuge
A refuge is a place, a specific location, one that is set aside, for comfort, for peace, for hope.
In the place where I sit (across the great ocean) the time reads 6:50 am; however, in the place where I will eventually sit—tomorrow—the time currently reads 1:50 am. This is odd, the whole concept of time and space. The difference between where I exist NOW and where I will exist THEN is a 5-hour time lapse, made five rather than the usual six because of Daylight Savings Time.
Maybe you are reading and ask: So? Why does this even merit writing?
Today, I am reading God’s Word and wondering: What do we see when we cannot really see?
A weird question, possibly, but still one that needs to be asked.
What can we see when our limited eyesight strives to see that which is limitless?
An awkward question, maybe, but one that will draw us forward toward truth.
What must we OR What should we strive to see when God alone is our refuge?
The writings of David remind us to pause, to ponder, to see, and even to seek that which does not exist here on earth. Will you hesitate, to ponder and to read with me, even to see the LORD with me?
David strained to see God in the light of what he could not see with his earthly eyesight. He wrote:
“My soul waits in silence for God only;
(The Psalms 62: 1-2 NASB)
From Him is my salvation.
He only is my rock and my salvation,
My stronghold I shall not be greatly shaken.”
Whenever we travel to our daughter’s home, we are transported hours into the future, and while staying HERE, I find myself considering and pondering THERE from which I just came. There are those who remain THERE, who have not been allowed to travel HERE with us, and as such, the time warp separates us. In living HERE for ten days, I question: Can I see MORE now that I live in the future? Can I understand BETTER now that I reside in the place that exist AHEAD in time?
Is time even relevant to God, the Creator and Master of the universe?
Does God dwell in time and space as mortals?
Will we exist as God, neither HERE nor THERE when we arrive to heaven?
Wherever we exist, THERE GOD IS.
GOD EXISTS, wherever we are.
David writes of this truth, of this mind-blowing concept, speaking of the existence of God in the silence of time as he says: “My soul waits in silence for God only; From Him is my salvation.”
Tomorrow, on Sunday, we will return to America from Europe, and as we do, we will fall back in time, returning five hours BACK to the time zone where we are called to exist. Unfortunately, as we do return home, we will leave our daughter, her spouse, our grandson, and our bonus daughter to exist, to live five hours ahead, to remain in the future, away from the place where we do not yet exist. If they were to travel to other regions of the earth, they too would experience the same time jump, existing in the future from where they now live.
I wonder: Is time relevant to the LORD?
The Bible speaks how a thousand days are as ONE DAY with the LORD. Perplexing, right.
“My soul waits in silence for God only;
(The Psalms 62: 1-2a NASB)
From Him is my salvation.
He only is my rock and my salvation, . . .”
So, we wait, standing in the silence, pausing to step into His realm, understanding but not knowing how our salvation EXACTLY derives from HIM.
Trusting HIM nonetheless, for HE ALONE is our foundation, our PRESENT truth, and our FUTURE.
What is currently unseen is eternal for God alone is a refuge from everything that exists HERE and NOW.
GOD is not a place but the person of JESUS.
JESUS is the refuge we SHOULD SEEK with our whole being (mind, soul, and strength).
- Despite what today brings, we have HOPE because of HIM.
- No matter what tomorrow does or does not bring, we have HOPE in HIM.
So, we fix our eyes on HIM—the UNSEEN—and we wait for the moment in time when we will SEE HIM as HE IS SEEN.
THERE we will SEE ALL that we have ever hoped to SEE.
THERE will become our HERE, our ETERNITY fixed upon the person of CHRIST JESUS.
“He only is my rock and my salvation,
(The Psalms 62: 2 NASB)
My stronghold I shall not be greatly shaken.”