Where do I go?

Have you ever felt like running away and hiding?  When we feel threatened and weak the feeling of flight rather than fight often takes over.  The picture of someone hiding out is a strong one, and conjures up images of confined dark places with someone cowering in fear in the shadows.  The Psalmist provides a description of hiding out that is in sharp contrast to the one just mentioned.  Psalm 61:3 says, For you are my refuge, my strong tower.  The place of refuge or hiding in the bible is one that provides perspective and grand views.   The place we are to go when threatened and feeling weak is to a tower, or a rock that provides a view (see Psalm 61:2).  High in the tower we are able to look around at the landscape and see the possibilities and the perspective that God has on any circumstances that have caused us to seek a safe place.  What was once thought to be scary and dangerous, may really be something quite small and less than menacing when seen from the heights of a tower, especially one built and inhabited by God.  So where do I go?  I go to the rock of my salvation; I go to God himself, my protector and my shelter.