Reading: Psalms 120 - 122
My Verse: "I lift up my eyes to the hills.
From where does my help come?
My help comes from the LORD,
Who made heaven and earth" (121:1,2).
Again, David is crying out to You, LORD God! But today I note that this is not mere blubbering! It is mindful, worshipful and particular. David first gives You his focus and attention - "I lift my eyes to the hills."
David then states Who You, LORD God are. You are the God Who "made heaven and earth." Tozer, in his wonderful little book, The Knowledge of the Holy, states how very important it is that we think rightly about You, LORD God.
"Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God . . . I believe there is scarcely an error in doctrine or a failure in applying Christian ethics that cannot be traced finally to imperfect and ignoble thoughts about God. . . .
Among the sins to which the human heart is prone, hardly any other is more hateful to God than idolatry, for idolatry is at bottom a libel on His character. The idolatrous heart assumes that God is other than He is - in itself a monstrous sin - and substitutes for the true god one made after its own likeness. Always this God will conform to the image of the one who created it and will be base or pure, cruel or kind, according to the moral state of the mind from which it emerges.
The idolater simply imagines things about God and acts as if they were true.
So necessary to the Church is a lofty concept of God that when that concept in any measure declines, the Church with her worship and her moral standards declines along with it."
In essence we shortchange ourselves by not thinking rightly about Who You are LORD God. Forgive me for I do this often. I start to doubt and question. Help me to stop and turn my eyes to You!
David then recounts how You, LORD God will save and keep him.
"He will not let your foot be moved,
He who keeps you will not slumber.
The LORD is your keeper;
The LORD is your shade on your right hand.
The sun shall not strike you by day,
nor the moon by night.
The LORD will keep you from all evil;
He will keep your life (121:3 - 6)
Thank You, LORD God! Thank You for Who You are!
"I AM WHO I AM (Exodus 3:14)!
"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending (Revelation 1:8)
"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ (I Timothy 2:5)
"I Am the Way the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father but by Me (John 14:6)
"Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever" (Hebrews 13:8)
Thank You that I can lift my eyes to You knowing who it is I am trusting. I have but to look into Your word and into my heart to know You. I thank You for this Psalm and the promises within it!
"The LORD will keep
your going out and your coming in
from this time forth and forevermore" (Psalm 121:8)!
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
My Verse: "I lift up my eyes to the hills.
From where does my help come?
My help comes from the LORD,
Who made heaven and earth" (121:1,2).
Again, David is crying out to You, LORD God! But today I note that this is not mere blubbering! It is mindful, worshipful and particular. David first gives You his focus and attention - "I lift my eyes to the hills."
David then states Who You, LORD God are. You are the God Who "made heaven and earth." Tozer, in his wonderful little book, The Knowledge of the Holy, states how very important it is that we think rightly about You, LORD God.
"Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God . . . I believe there is scarcely an error in doctrine or a failure in applying Christian ethics that cannot be traced finally to imperfect and ignoble thoughts about God. . . .
Among the sins to which the human heart is prone, hardly any other is more hateful to God than idolatry, for idolatry is at bottom a libel on His character. The idolatrous heart assumes that God is other than He is - in itself a monstrous sin - and substitutes for the true god one made after its own likeness. Always this God will conform to the image of the one who created it and will be base or pure, cruel or kind, according to the moral state of the mind from which it emerges.
The idolater simply imagines things about God and acts as if they were true.
So necessary to the Church is a lofty concept of God that when that concept in any measure declines, the Church with her worship and her moral standards declines along with it."
In essence we shortchange ourselves by not thinking rightly about Who You are LORD God. Forgive me for I do this often. I start to doubt and question. Help me to stop and turn my eyes to You!
David then recounts how You, LORD God will save and keep him.
"He will not let your foot be moved,
He who keeps you will not slumber.
The LORD is your keeper;
The LORD is your shade on your right hand.
The sun shall not strike you by day,
nor the moon by night.
The LORD will keep you from all evil;
He will keep your life (121:3 - 6)
Thank You, LORD God! Thank You for Who You are!
"I AM WHO I AM (Exodus 3:14)!
"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending (Revelation 1:8)
"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ (I Timothy 2:5)
"I Am the Way the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father but by Me (John 14:6)
"Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever" (Hebrews 13:8)
Thank You that I can lift my eyes to You knowing who it is I am trusting. I have but to look into Your word and into my heart to know You. I thank You for this Psalm and the promises within it!
"The LORD will keep
your going out and your coming in
from this time forth and forevermore" (Psalm 121:8)!
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
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