The wonder of it all 
Ps 46

1 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.

2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,

3 though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. "Selah"

4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.

5 God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day.

6 Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts.

7 The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. "Selah"

8 Come and see the works of the LORD, the desolations he has brought on the earth.

9 He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear, he burns the shields with fire.

10 "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."

11 The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. "Selah"

From our view we think that our safety in this world is secure because God is holding everything in His hand as so that He does not get Himself into a position so that He must rescue us. Because our natural view is very limited we just assume that God eliminates that danger that we do not see where there is a possibility that we might fall into the hands of evil men or be swallowed up by the corruption that is in us and in the world. This is why we grow to presume that because we have a big God who is in absolute control that we do not need to cultivate our relationship with Him. We are naturally comfortable remaining at a distance which gives us a sense of self sufficiency that perhaps God is better left alone or we would mess things up. lol 

In this Psalm we see Gods view of the world. lol The truth is that when we begin to walk the path that Christ has walked it is a path of the most resistant not a path were we avoid all the potential disasters. The bible says of Christ incarnation , and death that He descended into the abyss, which is comparing the wide gap that exist by coming from His glory to dwelling among sinners. Ive been saying this for ten years that Gods view of this world is much worse than we could ever imagine and it is much greater for us that we could ever imagine. This is why there is so much religious fanaticism in this world and not much experience of this mysterious presence of God. It is so easy for us to imagine a god of our own that we attach these dreadful responses that He has and to keep ourselves by our guilt and sorrow from experiencing the wonders of salvation. The truth is that we do not have the ability to balance Gods wrath with His grace. We cannot stand above scripture to view Gods side and our side and try to find that balance. lol 

Salvation is much grander than using the scripture and the means to find security for ourselves. Once we begin to describe Gods salvation in absolute terms thinking that we can apply the scripture so that everyone will be secure we have taken the heart and the passion out of our own lives and the lives of those we come in contact with. At some point we must begin to grow up from trusting in the word as a manual and be swallowed up in the wonder of being in union with the God Man. This is really an introduction to this Psalm but we must begin to see how God goes down to the lowest experience that can be found on this earth , that level that would crush us like a bridge falling on us, and He dwells in unapproachable light. He has revealed to us in baby talk that describes who He is in identifying with disaster in which we are drawn out into this mysterious destruction that burns up our sorrow and anger so that we feel secure in His protection. And He has promised us that if we look on the light of His glory that we will be swallowed up in the weight of the wonder that moves us beyond our understanding of the true value of all things. When we have experienced this mysterious presence of God we are fellowship with a Person.