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**Daily Devotional**
In my distress, I called upon the Lord. ?Psalm 18:6
Several days after a devastating earthquake in the San Francisco area, a young boy was seen rocking and swaying on the school playground. His principal asked him if he was okay, and the boy nodded yes and said, ?I am moving like the earth, so if there?s another earthquake I won?t feel it.? He wanted to prepare himself for another shaking of the ground.
Sometimes after a trauma, we brace ourselves for what might be coming next. If we?ve had a phone call that brought bad news, every time the phone rings we feel panicky and wonder, What has happened now?
The ?ground was shaking? for the psalmist David after King Saul tried to kill him (1 Sam. 19:10). He ran and hid. He thought death was next and told his friend Jonathan, ?There is but a step between me and death? (20:3). He wrote, ?The pangs of death surrounded me, and the floods of ungodliness made me afraid? (Ps. 18:4).
David cried to the Lord in his distress (v.6) and found that He was a stabilizer, One he could trust would always be with him. He said, ?The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; . . . my stronghold? (v.2). The Lord will be that for us also when the ground shakes under us. ? Anne Cetas
The Lord?s our Rock, in Him we hide,
A shelter in the time of storm;
Secure whatever ill betide,
A shelter in the time of storm. ?Charlesworth
To survive the storms of life, be anchored to the Rock of Ages.