“The name of the Lord is a strong fortress; the godly run to him and are safe.” Proverbs‬ ‭18‬:‭10‬

I read a story awhile back about a couple who were hiking in the mountains. As they were walking through a beautiful mountain meadow a storm suddenly erupted.

The thunder was so loud it seemed to shake the mountain. Lighting crashed around them. In the midst of an unexpected storm they were vulnerable, scared, and helpless.

Then the rain and hail came. There was no place to run to. No place to take shelter. Then one of them noticed in the distance, a cave. More like a indentation in the rocks. But it offered them shelter in the storm. They ran to the spot and waited out the storm in the safety of the rock.

The Bible tells us that God is our shelter in the midst of a storm. When the enemies of worry, doubt, broken, relationships, or consequences from bad decisions attack us, He is the shelter that we can run to.

Three things I notice about this verse. First of all the shelter doesn’t take us out of the storm, it simply gives us protection during the storms.

The second thing is that we as believers in Jesus need to run to the shelter. We are not automatically protected unless we run to the shelter.

The third thing I notice, is that there is no particular place to run to. We don’t run to a place, we run to a name.

You can carry a name with you everywhere. It’s a shelter you have with you during every storm, you encounter.

Run to the shelter of the name of the Lord. He won’t take you out of the storm, but he will carry you through it.