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Or, as the writer of the hymn puts it :
` How oft in the conflict, when pressed by the foe,
I have fled to my Refuge and breathed out my woe;
How often when trials like sea billows roll,
Have I hidden in Thee, O Thou Rock of my soul'.
And so we find that God is indeed our Refuge, whether from
the upheavals of nature (Psa. 46:2, 3), or from conflict among
nations (Psa. 46:6), or from those who would seek to cast us
down (Psa. 62:4), or from the fears and troubles of our own
hearts (Psa. 62:8).
` Trust in Him AT ALL TIMES'.
` HE ONLY is my Rock and my Salvation'.
`Only' - and `at all times'.
What an all-embracive
exclusiveness!
6.
Experimental entry into eternal truth
(Psalms 90 and 91).
When we think of God as a refuge for His people, we
instinctively, as we have already said, turn to Psalm 46. There
is, however, another Psalm that is almost equally relevant, and
that is Psalm 91.
It would be beside the point in this booklet to consider at any
length the historical setting of the passages that speak of God as
our refuge, but we cannot refrain from drawing attention to the
following points.
The Psalms are divided into five books, each book ending with
the phrase, `Amen and Amen'. Psalm 90 commences the fourth