{"id":14349,"date":"2020-03-19T09:27:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T14:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=14349"},"modified":"2020-03-19T09:56:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T14:56:43","slug":"our-refuge-in-the-storms-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=14349","title":{"rendered":"Our Refuge in the Storms of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As we stop taking our kids to sport<span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<span data-contrast=\"auto\">, stop going to the gym, stop socializing in restaurants<span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<span data-contrast=\"auto\">&nbsp;and as&nbsp;<span data-contrast=\"auto\">restrictions continue to confine&nbsp;<span data-contrast=\"auto\">us to life under our own roof, it may not be too long until you feel like David, living in a cave, and on the run from Saul.&nbsp;<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">If you do think you feel like David, it may also be a good idea to ask yourself about the mindset of David while he was bunkered down. Thankfully, this is not left to our imagination because David wrote it out for us in Psalm 57 &ndash; &ldquo;A&nbsp;<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Miktam<span data-contrast=\"auto\">&nbsp;of David When he Fled from Saul in a Cave.&rdquo;&nbsp;<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Though our current situation is very different from David&rsquo;s, there is much we can learn from his response.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>David&rsquo;s refuge is not in his cave.<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The title of David&rsquo;s Psalm&nbsp;<span data-contrast=\"auto\">give<span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<span data-contrast=\"auto\">&nbsp;us the context of where David&nbsp;has&nbsp;<span data-contrast=\"auto\">to&nbsp;reside. It helps us to know that he was there because of a threat to his life, but it does not mean that the cave was David&rsquo;s&nbsp;<span data-contrast=\"auto\">security in his life.<span data-contrast=\"auto\">&nbsp;David does not say,<span data-contrast=\"auto\">&nbsp;&ldquo;<span data-contrast=\"auto\">I<span data-contrast=\"auto\">n the cave I take refuge.<span data-contrast=\"auto\">&rdquo;<span<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we stop taking our kids to sports, stop going to the gym, stop socializing in restaurants,\u00a0and as\u00a0restrictions continue to confine\u00a0us to life under our own roof, it may not be too long until you feel like David, living in a cave, and on the run from Saul.\u00a0\u00a0 If you&#8230;<br \/>\nThe post Our Refuge in the Storms of Life appeared first on Association of Certified Biblical Counselors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":207,"featured_media":14351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[278],"tags":[402,1225],"class_list":["post-14349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-association-of-certified-biblical-counselors-acbc","tag-blog","tag-crises","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/artworks-000119680052-5afk3p-original-4.jpg?fit=1400%2C1400&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14352,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14349\/revisions\/14352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}