The basis of the city of God.

The City of God, the eternal city, was descroned by Augustine. He claimed that the verses such as this related not to any nation or people, but to the city to come, an invisible kingdom, which is not of this world.

Psalm 46

1God is our refuge and strength,a very present help in trouble.

2Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change,though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea;

3though its waters roar and foam,though the mountains tremble with its tumult. Selah

4There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,the holy habitation of the Most High.

5God is in the midst of the city; it shall not be moved;God will help it when the morning dawns.

6The nations are in an uproar, the kingdoms totter;he utters his voice, the earth melts.

7The LORD of hosts is with us;the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

via PCUSA – Devotions – Daily readings for Friday, January 8, 2010.

In this world was are asked to fear and act to prevent many things: glonbal warming, invasion by this group or that. We do not fear. We do no tneed to enslave ourselves to the ideology of this day.

For our citizenship is elswhere. These kingdoms and nations are ephemeral: if the German, French, British, Tearist and Soviet empires fell last centure over but a few years when before they appeared permanent and threatening, we should not ewly on rhwm.

On the contrasts, the nations should fear, because they will be cast down and bult up. The nations are in tumult — but they always are in tumult.

Let is not accede to the fears prumulgated by the nations. They are not our refuge.