He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved. In God is my salvation, and my refuge, is in God. Trust in Him at all times ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us.
I love this scripture because it reminds me that I am never alone. Every struggle, trial, question, misunderstanding that I'm faced with I can find solace in the one person who is always there to battle through this life with me (but only if I allow Him too). He allows us the freedom to choose whether or not we desire His help or the peace that only He can give us. It's easy to get confused and try to seek the solace we desire, from other sources in this world. But with much avail, we wont find it in this world. No one can or will understand what we need or how we feel better than our Savior does! He truly is a refuge for us all.
I speak from experience as there was a time in my life where I felt betrayed, misunderstood and very alone. I reached out to friends and family, read books, searched desperately for healing and peace and happiness. I wasn't getting the answers I wanted and was feeling more incomplete than I did before. I soon came to realize that I was looking in all the wrong places. I found my answer in a simple song that we sang in church, titled Where Can I Turn for Peace (hymn #129):
Where can I turn for peace?
Where is my solace
When other sources cease to make me whole?
When with a wounded heart, anger, or malice,
I draw myself apart,
Searching my soul?
Where, when my aching grows,
Where, when I languish,
Where, in my need to know, where can I run?
Where is the quiet hand to calm my anguish?
Who, who can understand?
He, only One.
He answers privately,
Reaches my reaching
In my Gethsemane, Savior and Friend.
Gentle the peace he finds for my beseeching.
Constant he is and kind,
Love without end.
These words gave greater meaning to me in that moment and I even felt foolish for not turning to Him first. The one who knows my heart, desires, and intentions better than anyone and I thought of Him last. But He didn't dismiss me or ignore. In fact, the complete opposite happened when I took that first step of getting on my knees and opening up my heart to Him. I finally felt whole again, I don't know what other way to say it. It has taken a great amount of faith to find complete peace in my life and there are still so many things that I don't understand; but that's alight. I trust in Him now, completely! When I choose to give my will and my life to Him and have Him guide me through, that's when the pieces started to fit together. I've been able to use His atonement to not only repent of past mistakes, but to forgive others as well as heal from the pains caused by others as well.
"When with a wounded heart, ager, or malice.....Where is the quiet hand to calm my anquish? Who, who can understand? He, only one."
He is our Savior, our brother, our friend! And in some cases some may even say He is our 'hero'. Turn to Him and let Him heal, lift, and comfort you. I promise that He will!
