King David’s deep desire in this Scripture was to escape from overwhelming turmoil and find refuge from life’s storms in the Lord. He readily sought God as a safe place of peace and protection. Throughout the Scriptures, storms were used as a metaphor for trials, dangers, challenges, and circumstances that seem out of our control. In Isaiah 25:4 he writes that God is a shelter from the storm and a refuge from not only external threats, but inner turmoil alike. For God sometimes calms the storm…but sometimes He just calms the storm within us.