Psalm 121

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MY H E L P CO M E S F R O M T H E LO R D — Psalm 121 —

“A person has to be thoroughly disgusted with the way things are to find the motivation to set out on the Christian way. As long as we think the next election might eliminate crime and establish justice or another scientific breakthrough might save the environment or another pay raise might push us over the edge of anxiety into a life of tranquility, we are not likely to risk the arduous uncertainties of a life of faith. A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he or she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.” — Eugene Peterson

I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. — vv 1-2

Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain, beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King. Within her citadels God has made himself known as a fortress. — Psalm 48:1-3

Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people, from this time forth and forevermore. — Psalm 125:1-2

I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. — vv 1-2

“We are of the earth and must look up to heaven. We need help far beyond our own limited resources and our human answers. Modern man has been infected with the myth of autonomy, the myth of self-sufficiency. He has been told to be the captain of his own fate, the commander of his own destiny. Yet a simple virus can fell him. The road to recovery from such illusions is one word: ‘Help.’ It is the admission that I have to ask someone for something beyond myself.” — Donald Williams

I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. — vv 1-2

He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. — vv 3-4

The LORD is your keeper; The LORD is your shade on your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. — vv 5-6

I have set the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. — Psalm 16:8

The LORD is your keeper; The LORD is your shade on your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. — vv 5-6

The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore. — vv 7-8

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. — Romans 8:35-39

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it. — 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen. — 2 Timothy 4:18