I recently read this short meditation in a study of Proverbs by Tim & Kathy Keller.
It was based on the verses from Proverbs 18:10-11: “The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe. A rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall in his imagination.”
Here is what the Kellers wrote: “But the wise person runs into the name of the Lord. In the Bible, God’s name is a way of speaking of his nature and attributes. To run into God’s name is to deliberately rehearse and tell yourself who he is. Jesus asked his fearful disciples in the storm, “Where is your faith?” He chastised them for failing to remember all that they had seen him do (Luke 8:25). If you panic, you are failing to remember (to “run into”) his power, his wisdom, his love for you. Self-control in any situation is the critical ability to both recognize and choose the important thing over the urgent thing. To honor, trust in, and please God is always the most important thing. What are you facing right now that is difficult? What attribute of God might you be forgetting – and might help greatly if you remembered it?”
So, what are you facing right now that is difficult? And what attribute of God might you be forgetting – and might help greatly if you remembered it?
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Thoughts Along The Journey 
Suffering is an ‘above the line’ reality (Rom 5); for this too, we have Jesus. To be centered, founded on the Rock, even when everything around us swirls every which way – our strong tower is a refuge from which to humbly emerge into yet another day in the fray.
Suffering comes in a variety of forms, and as you wrote God our strong tower can provide the grace and energy needed to step out into the fray again today.