Psalm 121:1-2 I lift up my eyes to the hills—
from where will my help come?
My help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth
I love it when a poet/writer asks a questions and then immediately provides the answer. It makes life so much more convenient to have the answers to these questions so quickly available. Where will my help come from? From the Lord... you remember the Lord, don't you? The one who made heaven and earth. In real life the gap between the asking of an existential question like "From where will my help come?" and the ability to provide the answer of faith provided here takes a bit longer. It takes longer than the length of one verse. It takes more than a split-second.
And that's OK. It's OK to take time in the question. It's OK to take time looking and searching for answers and help. It's OK to stare up at the hills for a while wondering what's going on and where the help's going to be. When you take that time to be honest with the question... when you take the time to let the question get real in your life... then the answer can be that much more real as well. When you've been in the depths, you know that the help you need can only come from the Lord, from the maker of heaven and earth.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
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