Psalm 142:5 I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
We live in a fallen world where the effects of sin entering the world are felt on every hand and there is nothing but the full Wrath of God to look forward to, but in Christ we may find refuge.
What is a refuge? According to Webster's it is 1. Shelter or protection from danger or distress 2. That which shelters or protects from danger, distress or calamity; a strong hold which protects by its strength, or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; any place inaccessible to an enemy.
Jesus is all those things and more to those who receive what He did on the Cross for us and continue to look to it as the object of Faith. He took God's Wrath that must be poured out upon sinners for us and He defeated Satan so that He has no legal right to us anymore, it is sin that gives him that right. In Christ, we are as Noah in the Ark, shut up with God.
Jesus is those things, He is a refuge whether we accept it or not. The key to it, however, is that one little personal possessive pronoun, "my." If you have not placed your Faith in Him and trusted in His finished Work at the Cross, it is of no benefit to you that He is "a" refuge. We all must be able to say, Jesus is "my" reguge. If He is not, cry out to Him now.
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