Philippians 4 forgetting the intense distress in the immensity of the divinity.

Immensity is magnificent medicine. That is one reason—if we may let the cat out of the bag—why the doctors send us to the seaside. We forget the tiddley-winking in the contemplation of the tremendous. We lose life's shallow worries in the vision of unplumbed depths. … 
The tendency of life is to drift among small things—small anxieties, small pleasures, small ideas, and small talk. He is a very wise physician indeed who can prescribe for us a tonic of big things.
F W Boreham, ‘A Tonic of Big Things,’ The Luggage of Life 

Euodia and Syntouche may be arguing over teacups creating their storms at the church at Philippi but the Lord is near.  
Let goods and kindreds go
This mortal life also
the body they may kill: 
God's truth abideth still; 
his kingdom is forever!

Psalm 46:1-11 ESV
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. [2] Therefore we will not fear though the earth give way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, [3] though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah [4] There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. [5] God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns. [6] The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts. [7] The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah [8] Come, behold the works of the LORD, how he has brought desolations on the earth. [9] He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the chariots with fire. [10] "Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!" [11] The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah

Warren Wiersbe has commented on this psalm 
  • Verses 2–3: God is our refuge, meaning we do not need to fear.
  • Verses 4–7: God is our strength, meaning we do not need to faint.
  • Verses 8–11: God is our help, meaning we do not need to fret.
  • There is a Refuge, a River and a Revelation.  


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