Today in Psalm 68, I loved reading verses 5-6 in the NASB translation. It reads like this:
“A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows, is God in His holy habitation. God makes a home for the lonely; He leads out the prisoners into prosperity.”
I could spend days thinking about the words in these verses and what we learn about God. He is a present father; He is a defending judge. He is a maker of homes for the lonely; He is the guide towards prosperity.
David reveals this God as the answer to most of what torments the human heart: Missing father? Hopeless situation? Deep loneliness? Captive to sin? Needing abundant life? God covers it all. There’s nothing God doesn’t see, understand, and make provision for. He is here to comfort, provide, include, and prosper.
He is Everything—the great I AM—and exactly what we need.
As the world faces an epidemic of loneliness, I particularly love the promise that God makes a home for the lonely. He enables rich belonging—first to Himself and then to the body of believers. He is our Home, and He leads us home.