Psalm 46 has eleven verses, and I don’t have the space to properly expound upon each one but ask that you follow along in your Bible as I comment on each verse.
Verse 1
• Do you need a place to run when you are overwhelmed? God is that place of either hiding, or high enough to see the enemy approaching.
• When we were without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. Through Christ we have the strength to do what we need to do.
• A very present (that means right here, right now) help in trouble. He’s right there available for your rescue.
Verses 2, 3
• What are you afraid of and why? No matter what danger or catastrophe that comes, if He’s there; there is peace.
• (Selah) Think about that.
Verse 4 In Revelation 22:1: And He showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. It gets no better than that. For the Christian, there is always a river of joy that we can get a deep drink of. Are you thirsty for righteousness? Get a DRINK! It’s there available for you, if you want it.
Verse 5
• God is in the midst, and everything revolves around and proceeds from His throne. Any stability we have is in Christ. God’s church is solid and will not be moved, neither can the gates of hell prevail against it.
• The Lord is just a prayer away.
Verse 6
The heathen and ungodly are always raging at God and His people. They hate righteousness and anything good.
This is possibly a picture of the last days when God shall destroy all the powers that be and sets the earth on fire with judgment, according to 2 Peter 3: 10, 12 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with a fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 12. Looking for and hastening unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
Verse 7
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Because we can look back at verse 1 and see that it is restated that God is our refuge. (Selah) Think about that.
Verse 8
Oh, what God has done for the benefit of His elect.
Verse 9
He will utterly destroy all the works of man and obliterate their weapons of war.
Verse 10
• Stand in awesome silence in the presence of the Lord. When you realize what He has done, can do and will do, you will realize that He is God.
• Every knee will someday bow and every tongue will confess.
Verse 11
• I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.
• Come unto me all ye that labor.
• (Selah) Think about that.