Skip to main content

Wednesday... What or who do you look up to?


Wednesday... What or who do you look up to?

Does someone come to your mind? Well, it is both a what and a who that comes to my mind. 

I love today's Psalm. It is a Psalm that has held me steady and it speaks of both the what and the who. And I was emotional as I read it this morning. Psalm 121:1 (MSG) says, "I look up to the mountains; does my strength come from mountains?" I do look up to them and they make me remember but I don't get my strength from them. And then verse 2 says, "No, my strength comes from God, who made heaven, and earth, and mountains." I love that verse. 

So many get great peace and solitude and encouragement from being in nature. It is a great place to be. This morning, I am looking out on our foothills and as I was driving in to my coffee shop I could see Mt. Charleston and all the snow on it. I love those mountains but nature is just the middleman. They didn't just happen by themself, God created them. They are a reminder of God and His ability and His power and His majesty.

Look at verses 3 & 4, "He won't let you stumble, you're Guardian God won't fall asleep. Not on your life! Israel's Guardian will never doze or sleep." 

The Psalmist goes on in verses 5-8, "God's your Guardian, right at your side to protect you - shielding you from sunstroke, sheltering you from moon stroke. God guards you from every evil. He guards your very life. He guards you when you leave and when you return, he guards you now, he guards you always."

We lived here looking up at those mountains for 15 years and then we moved to Long Island in New York and then to the flattest state, Florida. There were no mountains there to wake up to but there was an Ocean. And God created the Ocean and I would walk beside it looking out and marveling at it greatness and be reminded of God.  

Now we have moved back to Nevada and I I love to look up at those mountains that surround us. They are beautiful and majestic and they remind me of the One who made those mountains. He is my Guardian. So let's not put our trust in the middleman but go right to the Creator. "I look up to the mountains; does my strength come from mountains? No, my strength comes from God, who made heaven, and earth, and mountains."  Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning



Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Tuesday... I wonder what would happen if we didn't take the credit?

Nehemiah 6:16b (NLT), "They realized this work had been done with the help of our God." Tuesday... I wonder what would happen if we didn't take the credit? Over in the Old Testament in the book of Nehemiah it tells of a major task that through the leadership of Nehemiah was accomplished. The walls of Jerusalem had been torn down and God had laid it on Nehemiah to build those walls back up. It was definitely an almost impossible task but Nehemiah 6:15-16 says, "So on October 2 the wall was finished - just fifty-two days after we had begun. When our enemies and the surrounding nations heard about it, they were frightened and humiliated. They realized this work had been done with the help of our God." Now, we so many times want to take credit for doing the impossible. It would make such a difference for us. But I wonder what would happen through us if God got the credit? Psalm 96 tells us what we are to do. Verses 2-3 says, "Sing to the LORD; praise his name. ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Tuesday... We just have trouble listening.

1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." Tuesday... We just have trouble listening. Over in Jeremiah 25:4 (NLT) it says, "Again and again the LORD has sent you his servants, the prophets, but you have not listened or even paid attention." And Jeremiah went on to tell what was going to happen. There will be consequences if we do not listen to what God says through his Word. Now the Apostle Paul over in 1 Corinthians was having a problem with some professed Christ followers who were having trouble at listening. And we too can have problems at listening. We can think that being a Christ follower means we do a lot of finger pointing and we give up on people who don't do what we say. We can even do that in our families. But Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." In verse ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Thursday... Yet, now this is true.

Colossians 1:22a (NLT), "Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body." Thursday... Yet, now this is true. Now Paul a prisoner in Rome is writing a letter to a church in Colossae. And in Colossians 1:21 (MSG) he says, "Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds" The NLT says "This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated by your evil thoughts and actions." And that is where so many in this world live today. They are blowing it and they don't know what to do. Yes, they are hostile in their minds and they are engaging in evil deeds but there is Good News. Now Paul in verses 19-20 sets the stage for an answer to those who don't want to live that way. He says, "For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and earth b...
Post a Comment
Read more