“I like walking in the rain cause no one knows I’m crying.”

“Women’s Refuge” says the advertisement in the paper today.  ( The Northland Age, Thursday, April, 28, 2011) There are “Safe Houses for Unsafe Homes.”

Storms in the Homes!

It did not take me long to find the hymn with the title “A Shelter in the Time of  Storm.” ( Vernon J. Charlesworth from Psalm 94:22, ed Ira D. Sankey)

But not only women in unsafe homes need a refuge where they can hide from the storms of life. All of us need a refuge.

I am glad that I can say that the living God is my refuge. I say with David “….; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge.” (Psalm 18:2)

There is the storm of doubt.  Luke 24:38; Romans 14:23; James 1:6.

There is the storm of fear. Isaiah 43:1

There is the storm of anxiety. Philippians 4:6

There is the storm of loneliness. Matthew 28:20

There is the storm of despair. Second Corinthians 4:8

And finally ther is the storm of  DEATH. John 11:25,26