Our Scripture for today is Psalm 121:1-2
“I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.”
Picture a classic Western film: the heroes are surrounded with nowhere to run. Just when all seems lost, the cavalry thunders over the hill to save the day. Throughout history, people have experienced this pattern—help arriving from just beyond what they could see.
Psalm 121 tells a different story. Look at the opening verses: “I lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?” The psalmist asks a question first. He’s looking at those hills, wondering whether help comes from there?
The “answer is “No!” “My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.”
The psalmist’s help doesn’t come from the hills. It comes from the One who made the hills. There’s a world of difference.
When trouble strikes, we too scan the horizon for help: our resources, our connections, our abilities. Sometimes God does use those ordinary means. But the psalmist wants us to understand something deeper: God isn’t limited to the help we can see coming.
As the Maker of heaven and earth, He can use absolutely anything to deliver you. Help might come from an unexpected conversation, an unlikely opportunity, or directly from God’s hand in supernatural ways.
When your hope rests in the hills, in what you can see, your confidence is limited. But when your hope rests in the Maker of the hills, your confidence is as limitless as God Himself.
I’m Lonnie Davis, and these are thoughts worth thinking.