Tuesday... We are surrounded...

Tuesday... We are surrounded. Yes we are.

Everywhere we turn in this New Year there are problems and concerns and difficulties and pandemic and violence and discord. It seems like it would be a good time to surrender, but is it? It is all in what we see.

We truly are surrounded here in Las Vegas. This is Sin City but it is also surrounded by mountains. As we open our blinds each morning we see mountains to our west, south, east and north. We are surrounded. And that is the picture that Psalm 125:2 (NLT) paints, "Just as the mountains surround Jerusalem [Las Vegas], so the Lord surrounds his people both now and forever." And that means 2021. Yes it does!

This is not the time to surrender. We are surrounded by the Lord no matter when it is and where we are.

Verse 1 say, "Those who trust in the Lord are as secure as Mount Zion; they will not be defeated but will endure forever."

Verses 1-5 in the Message Paraphrase says it like this, "Those who trust in God are like Zion Mountain: Nothing can move it, a rock solid mountain you can always depend on. Mountains encircle Jerusalem, and God encircles his people-always has and always will. The fist of the wicked will never violate what is due the righteous, provoking wrongful violence. Be good to your good people, God, to those whose hearts are right."

Yes, we are surrounded. God's good people are surrounded by God. Let's open our eyes each morning and see that God is a rock solid mountain that we can depend on, that nothing can move! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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