Move to the Midwest, and you’ll understand the need for a bolt hole.
They are known as storm cellars. When a tornado moves in, there’s nothing you can do to fight it. You’re forced to run to a place of safety, because that’s the only way to survive.
There are other bolt holes we need in our lives. Emotional ones. Financial ones.
Take school children. We tell them to find a teacher if someone wants to pick a fight. The teacher becomes the bolt hole.
Financially, we call our bolt hole a reserve fund. It’s the account we never touch, so that when all else is smashed away, we have a way to survive the devastation.
Where do we run spiritually? Meditation? Astrology? A church that preaches a feel-good message?
Psalm 118:8 gives us our true source of safety.
“It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man.”
Our spiritual bolt hole isn’t in our self-help groups or even in our church. We find it in studying the Word and in time spent in prayer. Our comfort and safety flows from God, and when we connect with him, he will surround us with his hands of love and protection.
It’s when we make contact with God that our life is forever changed.
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