Be Still and Know that I am God -- Psalm 46 and the Comfort and Power of God (week of Aug. 15, second to listen to)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In this shortcast Kerry explores Psalms 46. This psalm speaks of God's power, His reliability, and His ability to comfort us. Kerry explores one possible setting for its origin and how it can apply in our own time and lives.
We are grateful to our sponsor, Lisa Spice, and to Jacob Muhlestein for editing this episode, and to Rich Nicholls for composing and playing the music.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the scriptures are real podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that have become very real to us or that make them more real for us |
| 0:17.0 | so that we can draw more power from them in our lives because we need that power. I'm your host, |
| 0:21.9 | Kerry Milstein, and this is a shortcast where we're just going to look at one Psalm and explore |
| 0:26.6 | it just a little bit together, and one that is particularly meaningful to me, although there are a lot |
| 0:33.3 | of them that are meaningful to me. As you read them, I think you'll fall in love with them as well. |
| 0:37.4 | We're going to look at Psalm 46. And there are many people who feel that this is a Psalm that was |
| 0:42.9 | written by Hezekiah after Jerusalem was almost destroyed and then was miraculously spared. |
| 0:49.1 | And it certainly fits that. We don't really have any evidence for that, but it fits that scenario very well, |
| 0:55.8 | and that's why many people think that. In the end, we really don't know. Note the superscription here |
| 1:02.4 | to the chief musician for the sons of Quora. We don't really know what the sons of Quora means there, |
| 1:07.1 | but the interesting part here is a song upon alamoth. This is probably the plural of |
| 1:13.9 | Alma, which is the young woman or maiden. And so this is probably saying this is a song for young |
| 1:22.2 | women to sing. That's the voices that were intended to sing this. So we could have, you know, our, |
| 1:27.9 | our young women in our church sing this Psalm, and that probably is equivalent to what they're |
| 1:33.3 | looking for. In any case, we don't know that for sure, but that seems to be what's going on here. |
| 1:38.8 | And it's also worth noting that the first lines of this poem or this, this Psalm, are what inspired Martin Luther to write the hymn, A Mighty Fortress is our God, which is a fantastic hymn, and you get that feeling in here. |
| 1:54.5 | So let's just go through it and read it a little bit. |
| 1:57.8 | We've got verse one, God is our refuge and strength, a very present help |
| 2:03.5 | in trouble. Just that line is a line to carry with us all the time. He is present when we are in |
| 2:11.6 | trouble. He's our refuge and our strength. God is what we need. Whatever your problems are, |
| 2:20.3 | whatever turmoil is stirring in your life, God is the answer. God and his son, Jesus Christ, are the answer. And that's where we'll |
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