"God is in her citadels; he has shown himself to be her fortress." ~Psalm 48:3, NIV
Cities. Ah, yes, we name them, and they go through life cycles. So it's no wonder that when poets get their writing utensils out, they personify the places that we live as people - in this case, we're talking about Zion, the city of the Great King.
She is just a place, and yet somehow God is in her, and is her refuge, the walls around her citizens. Poets don't personify without purpose. If they want us to believe God inhabits a city as a person, then isn't the point they're trying to make that God inhabits people as He does a city?
Will He not protect them from attacks, from sieges, from catapults and ballistas, trebuchets and cannons? Will He not provide for the city, making its inhabitants teem with blessing?
Yes, He will. That city has nothing to fear - and neither does the person who trusts in the Lord. 'God will protect them,' is the message I read from this psalm.
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