No matter who you are, or what your circumstances, you will have trouble at times in your life.
It may be trouble that you brought on yourself. Maybe your actions, words, or attitudes have resulted in trouble.
Maybe you are you partly responsible for the trouble.
Or maybe it’s trouble that you had nothing to do with. Trouble is sometimes just the result of living in this world that is fallen, full of sin, accident, tragedy, disease, death. A land of want, scarcity, lack of resources. Earth is not heaven.
The trouble may be minor, inconvenience, frustrating. Or it may maybe major, devastating, insurmountable, crushing.
No matter where the source or how intense, there is help in trouble. A present help. That means not someday or maybe, but present right now. Not just a present help, but a very present help. A help that is engaged, active and caring.
Psalms 46: 1 – 3:
God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble.
Therefore will not we fear,
though the earth be removed,
And though the mountains
Be carried into the midst of the sea;
Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,
And though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
Selah.
Later in the same chapter, verse 7:
The Lord of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah.