Are we looking for help from the wrong places? Are we looking to the hills for relief? Are we trying to handle everything ourselves? Are we waiting for someone to just show up and make it all go away as if by magic?
God is saying that He is our help. We don’t need to fear the mountains because He is traveling with us. Psalm 121 reminds us who God is and how much he loves us. It also reminds us what a joy the journey itself can be – if you have the right traveling companion.
The Bible begins with a journey. “By faith Abraham…set out for a place that he was going to receive as an inheritance. He went out, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tent…he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.” (Hebrews 11:8–10, CSB)
Abraham never found the place for which his heart longed and his soul yearned while he was alive.
Life is a journey. Each oasis we find in the desert ultimately fails to satisfy. We live in tents…but the city we desire remains just out of reach.
We’ll going to look at the Psalms in order to investigate what we need to reach that city.
Are we looking for help from the wrong places? Are we looking to the hills for relief? Are we trying to handle everything ourselves? Are we waiting for someone to just show up and make it all go away as if by magic?
God is saying that He is our help. We don’t need to fear the mountains because He is traveling with us. Psalm 121 reminds us who God is and how much he loves us. It also reminds us what a joy the journey itself can be – if you have the right traveling companion.
The Bible begins with a journey. “By faith Abraham…set out for a place that he was going to receive as an inheritance. He went out, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tent…he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.” (Hebrews 11:8–10, CSB)
Abraham never found the place for which his heart longed and his soul yearned while he was alive.
Life is a journey. Each oasis we find in the desert ultimately fails to satisfy. We live in tents…but the city we desire remains just out of reach.
We’ll going to look at the Psalms in order to investigate what we need to reach that city.
