How are you progressing? Have you been finding/making time to read and memorize Scripture each week? If you have not been inclined to read the Bible regularly or memorize Scripture, or perhaps the whole idea of it is overwhelming, let me encourage you to begin SOMEWHERE. If reading multiple passages seems too much, read a single chapter. If memorizing several verses is too much, select one verse out of our focus Scripture and work on that. But most importantly, ask God to enable you to read, to comprehend and to memorize. He is delighted to answer your prayer. This week we are focusing on Psalm 46:1-7:
Psalm 46
1 God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way,
though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea,
3 though its waters roar and foam,
though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah
4There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy habitation of the Most High.
5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved;
God will help her when morning dawns.
6 The nations rage, the kingdoms totter;
he utters his voice, the earth melts.
7 The LORD of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
Commentary:
"This psalm encourages us, to take comfort in God when things look very black and threatening....The psalmist teaches us by his own example. I. To triumph in God, and his presence with us, especially when we have had some fresh experiences of his appearing in our behalf (v.1): God is our refuge and strength. Are we in distress? He is a help, a present help, a help found (so the word is), one whom we have found to be so..." [Matthew Henry's Commentary in One Volume]
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