‘God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth give way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah‘ (Psalm 46:1-3)
“States and kingdoms that seem to be as solid as the earth will one day be removed. Dynasties that seem as fixed and firm as mountains may soon be swept away into the sea of oblivion.
We may have famine, and war, and pestilence, and anarchy, until the whole earth shall seem to be like the sea in a great storm; yea, hope may fail with many and the stoutest hearts may shake at the swelling thereof.
Yet, let the worst come to the worst, God’s people are still safe. As one old writer saith:
‘Though God should, to use His words concerning Jerusalem, wipe the earth ‘as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down,’ yea, though He should break it into a thousand shivers, yet need not His people fear; for, if He does not protect them under heaven, He will take them up to be with Him in heaven.’
If heaven and earth could be mingled together, and chaos could return, yet still, as long as God is God, there is no cause for the believer to fear.”
–Charles H. Spurgeon, “The Vine of Israel,” in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, vol. 57 (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1911), 57: 155.
Spurgeon is commenting on Psalm 46:1-3.
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