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When Life Gets Too Hard

Psalm 46 affirms the sufficiency of God’s mighty presence when life gets too big for us to handle.
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. …
The lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah. Come and see the works of the lord, the desolations he has brought on the earth. He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear, he bums the shields with fire. "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."
The lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah.

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