Where is your dwelling? Is it a place of solace? Is it a place of safety? Is it always there for you? Have you spent time thinking about where you can go to be comforted and be assured that everything will be alright? Is God the one you know you can always turn to?
We all live somewhere. We may live in an apartment or a single-family home. We may live in a city or a small town or no town at all. We may have family or friends we can turn to when things go south. We may be a comfort to others when trouble finds them.
Having a place and someone we can turn to during difficult times is a blessing. Our place may be our childhood home and the person may be a parent. However, as we continue to grow older, those will no longer be available. A childhood home may eventually crumble, and our parents will eventually pass from this world. But there is always one person we can take shelter in—God.
God has been a shelter for the people who come to him since the beginning of time. He has been there in the past and will be there in the future. We may look for something or someone tangible. When we go to God, he will provide the tangible. We will provide us with a person who can be the one who comforts us when needed. He will provide us a safe place to be.
Some discover being in a church sanctuary or prayer room to be a place of solace. Some find speaking with a pastor to be a comfort. Some realize a close friend was put in their lives to be the support they need. Regardless of where and who we have in our lives, it is God who has put them there for us.
I pray we all discover a place of solace. I pray we find the person who will comfort us when needed. I pray each one of us know that God is always there and will provide what we need. Know your place of solace. Know who will comfort you. Know God provides. Be support for one another.
Psalm 90:1-2
Lord, you have been our dwelling place
in all generations.
Before the mountains were brought forth,
or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
Marty Pressey 