Psalm 121
English
Standard Version (ESV)
A Song of Ascents.
121
I lift up my eyes to the hills.
From where does my help
come?
2
My help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and
earth.
3
He will not let your foot be moved;
he who keeps you will
not slumber.
4
Behold, he who keeps Israel
will neither slumber nor
sleep.
5
The Lord is your keeper;
the Lord is your shade
on your right hand.
6
The sun shall not strike you by day,
nor the moon by night.
7
The Lord will keep you from all evil;
he will keep your life.
8
The Lord
will keep
your going out and your coming in
from this time forth and
forevermore.
Do you ever
worry about the future? Do you ever
wonder about the road that you are traveling on right now? Or the road you might be traveling down
later? I have been told that worry is a
sign of lack of faith. It is like
putting something above God. True trust
and faith are evidenced through the lack of worry. Knowing that God is leading us should be
enough to satisfy us, so, why doesn’t it always calm our fears and take away
our anxieties? Again,, it goes back to
our sinful nature. This is the sin that
keeps me from being happy and satisfied.
I worry about my future. I worry
that I have done something or will do something wrong. I worry about the past, rethinking why I made
some of the choices that I did and wondering where it all went wrong. I am like the man in Mark 9: 24 who cried to
the Lord, “24 Immediately
the father of the child cried out[
and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”
I
am thankful that I have a God looking out after me. He is not sleeping or slumbering but is
watching and keeping the evil one from me.
Even though he tries to creep up on me, the Lord has given me His Word
to forewarn me of those dangers. He
reminds me that I need not worry about my past, present, or future but put my
entire trust in Him. He knows my life
backwards and forwards and He has great plans.
Those plans will bring Him glory, honor, and praise and I am happy to be
a part of them.
Seeking Him with
all my heart,
Sheila
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