My help comes from the Lord - Psalm 121:2

Do you ever ask yourself a question?  To go even further, do you ever answer your own questions?  Usually when I ask myself a question - and, yes, occasionally I do - it is because I don't have an answer.  Sometimes, just verbalizing it - to myself or to someone else - helps me to understand what my dilemma is.  However, being in my mid-60s I often forget what the question ever was before I can even consider an answer.  One of my signs in our home says "SIMPLIFY"...questions often complicate things.

Our psalmist today looked to the hills  to wonder where his help was coming from - we're not sure why.  One of the possible answers is there were places of  worship in the mountains and particularly those Israelites who were seeking God knew no other place to look. They also knew He created the "heavens and the earth" so they looked up to find Him.  The important thing to note is the psalmist knew where his help came from.  Six times in this psalm he talks about the Lord as his "guard".  Maybe he asked himself the question in verse 1 just so he could remind himself of the many ways our God helps and guards.

Who are you looking to for help today?  Did they create the heavens and the earth?  Did they hang the sun, moon and stars keeping them there for thousands of years?  Do they have everlasting love for you?  Did they know you when you were made in the secret place?  I think you get the idea...we look for help from the most unlikely sources.  Oswald Chambers says:

There is only One Being who can satisfy the

last aching abyss of the human heart, and that

is the Lord Jesus Christ."

 

We must stop thinking our help will come from any other source.  If we will draw near to Him, He will draw near to us.  We need no other lover of our soul.

 

For further study:  Exodus 14:14, Deuteronomy 31:6, Joshua 1:9, Psalm 46:1, Psalm 139:10, Isaiah 41:10, Isaiah 58:11, Ephesians 3:20, Hebrews 13:6, James 4:8

 

Be blessed in your understanding of God's word.

 

Love,

Holly