Friday... We sometimes need a recharge.

Psalm 121:1-2 (NLT), "I look up to the mountains - does my help come from there? My help come from the Lord, who made heaven and earth."

Friday... We sometimes need a recharge.

I got up early this morning to recharge my EV car. It was at 20% which is when you need to find a place to give it an electric charge. And I have a place that doesn't cost as much before 8:00 am so I was there early.

Now in ourselves, sometimes we need a recharge in our spirits. Things can really drain us, they can get us down. We get to the point that we can't even look up, we have no energy.

I have different verses in the Bible that are rechargers for me. One is in Isaiah and it is about an Eagle. That one is so good. The picture of being lifted high and flying above our problems really is a recharger. Then there is another group over in Proverbs that is about trusting and being directed to a straight path. Yes getting off the path can give us trouble and we need some refocus, some recharging. And then today's verses are also rechargers for me, even everyday.

Psalm 121:1-2 (NLT) says, "I look up to the mountains - does my help come from there? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth." In my schedule of reading the Psalms I come to this Psalm every five months but I also know where it is when I need it and I also live daily by it.

Every morning I get up and go out with my Bible and Turner my dog and we set on a couch, I read three chapters in the Bible, pray and look out on some mountains that are right across the 215. That is such a lift.

First of all to look at the mountains we need to look up. We can look down if we are on top or if we are an eagle flying around but too many times life really does gets us down and we need to look up.

Now one of the key facts about mountains is that they are bigger than any problem we usually are facing. But the focus is not on the mountain. The verse asks an important question. It asks, "does my help come from there?" We can worship the creation instead of the creator. By itself it cannot help us in what we are facing, in what is bringing us down but the one who made them can so we need to get our attention in difficult times on the one who made those mountains. We need to be recharged.

Here is something that can help us. Verse 5a says, "The Lord himself watches over you!" Yes, you can look up to that mountain but the mountain also looks down on you. Another great picture of God.

Verses 7-8 says, "The Lord keeps you from all harm and watches over your life. The Lord keeps watch over you as you come and go, both now and forever." Let that fact also recharge you in your down times and give you confidence and peace at all times.

I love how The Message Paraphrase says verses 1-2, "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." I love that, "and mountains." That lifts me up! That recharges me! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning