Where Does My Help Come From? [Psalm 121:1-2]

Psa 121:1 I raise my eyes toward the mountains. Where will my help come from?

Psa 121:2 My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.

This psalm written by King David gives us such a visual word picture of the scenario being described. We imagine a man in the bottom of a valley, all alone. A man looking up and seeing at the top of the mountains that make up this valley, enemies on every mountain crest. Bows and arrows drawn the enemy is ready to finish the man off. With such an advantage, their arrows would gain speed traveling down the mountain side into the valley below. What is the man to do? He could sit and wait in the valley, but the enemy would likely charge. He could take his chances by running up the mountain, but being totally surrounded his chances of survival are slim. What is the man to do? Where will his help come from?

We have all felt this way before. We get ourselves into situations or situations seem to just find us where there seems to be no escape. Any effort that we give to set ourselves free seems hopeless. The world seems to surround us, waiting for us to move in the slightest direction, so they can strike. Where will our help come from? God does not want us to live in that state of fear. He does not want us to wonder who will rescue us from the danger. He will. We must call out to Him. He will rescue us.

Aaron

[Illustration modified from sermon at Thomas Road Baptist Church, "Christ's Fearless Ones"]