I remember when I was a little girl that warm feeling I got when visiting my Grandmother’s home. I always felt genuinely loved and safe.

There was a picture on her wall in the living room to which I was drawn every time we visited. When I was able to read I began to appreciate it all the more because it was a verse from the Bible, and the picture perfectly depicted it’s meaning. Well, it did to me when I was that age!

The above image is to the best of my ability, and if my memory serves me correctly a replication of that picture. It was the perfect setting for one of those mighty verses of Scripture that is difficult to read and pass by!

When I was old enough to think a little deeper about those beautiful words, those years in my life were troubled ones, and I would have loved to have known the comfort of a safe place to hide and the comfort of being carried … by God Himself!

Like everyone in this world ‘born in sin’, I too was In my sin, without hope, and separated from the living God because of it. What a sorry state to wake up to! But thank God for highlighting my need, and helping me to understand from the Bible what God has done in order to remedy my dilemma.

Did you know that being saved from our sin along with all of it’s shame, guilt, and consequences is entirely the work of God through His beloved Son? He bravely bore in His body on the cross the full wrath of a holy God against the sin that separated us from Him.

All of this because of love that is by far beyond our comprehension. His mercy that has withheld from us the wrath we deserved, and the grace that has provided abundantly that which we do not deserve has all been made available through what the Lord Jesus accomplished in His death on the cross.

There is absolutely nothing that we can bring to God or do to acquire the gift of salvation. It is truly a gift, which has already been paid for in full by the precious blood of Jesus “the Lamb of God”.

But bless God that not only is our precious salvation entirely the work of God, but also our safekeeping and security! When once we trust in Him, He does not leave us all alone to our devices to make it the rest of the way all on our own!

This is now the time when we can claim as His believing people those wonderful words from our title verse, and live in the good and comfort of those amazing words, allowing ourselves to be borne up by the everlasting arms of the eternal God our refuge.

By faith in the ‘everlasting God’ through His beloved Son the Lord Jesus Christ we have been brought into this wonderful position of sacred security.

Be comforted and take courage dear soul who may be suffering from a sense of overwhelm, lack of confidence, or faith that is fainting along the way - God has got you. He will not leave you go. You are far too precious to Him. The price He has paid to make you His own will never be forgotten.

Not long before the Lord Jesus went to the cross He told His disciples about the events that would soon happen, and they became distressed. They did not want Him to leave them, and could not contemplate life without Him. But He comforted them with words that we can take to heart this day:

Basically the Lord is telling His disciples here and every one of His believing people that now that He is in heaven with His Father, He has given His Holy Spirit to live in each of us. But for added security, we are safe in Christ. He in the Person of His Holy Spirit is in us and we are in Him. And then for the ultimate security … Christ in whom we are hidden is in His Father!

The security we now have is impenetrable because it is all hidden safe in the ‘eternal God’. No wonder we can find our comfort in those words: “The eternal God is our refuge …” We have a triple guarantee of sacred security, and nothing can undermine this … ever!

And maybe just for good measure you might appreciate some ref assuring words of our Lord Jesus as He referred to Himself as ‘the Good Shepherd’, and His believing people as sheep of His pasture:

God’s trusting people are secure in the nail pierced hand of our beloved Saviour, who is secure in the hand of His Father.