"This is what the Lord says: ‘A shepherd might save from a lion’s mouth only two leg bones or a scrap of an ear of his sheep. In the same way only a few Israelites in Samaria will be saved—people who now sit on their beds and on their couches." (NCV)
"I look up to the hills, but where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth. He will not let you be defeated. He who guards you never sleeps. He who guards Israel never rests or sleeps. The Lord guards you. The Lord is the shade that protects you from the sun. The sun cannot hurt you during the day, and the moon cannot hurt you at night. The Lord will protect you from all dangers; He will guard your life. The Lord will guard you as you come and go, both now and forever" (Psalm 121:1-8 NCV).
"And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose" (NKJV).
The world is upside down crazy right now. Maybe it’s always been that way and we are just more aware of it due to the ease at which information is passed from one country to another, from one continent to another. There is a barrage of information and usually most of it awful.
Things are just nuts!
And with the craziness, the chaos, there is also accompanying fear. A lot of it! People are wondering what’s coming next and how they will prepare. They want to protect themselves, to make sure that whatever harm is falling around them, it won’t fall directly on them. And so the Internet is filled with videos, websites, blogs, and conversations about the things we "should" be doing to protect ourselves. Invest in precious metals. No, invest in mutual funds. No, invest in lands. No, invest in gardening. No, invest in this kind of food. No, invest in this kind of exercise. Eat this. No, eat that. Breath this. No, don’t breath because it’s polluted. Do this. Do that. Go here. Go there.
Stop the merry-go-round! I want to get off! There’s too much to process, too much conflicting information, too much craziness.
Selah. (In Hebrew that means to stop, pause, and think. For me right now it means simply to stop and breathe.)
There is only one Savior and that’s Jesus Christ our Lord. Nothing else will save us. No one else will fix us. No one else is in control! We need to remember whom we serve and we need to remember who He really is.
In Amos, the Lord warns the Israelites that only a few will escape the punishment that is coming. God is in control and He won’t be thwarted! It doesn’t matter what we plan, where we go, how we invest, or what we do. We cannot get away from His hand. The only place we can run is to Him. The only place we are safe is in His presence doing His will. Nothing—NOTHING—else matters. Everything else is of no consequence.
Where does my help come from? It comes from the Lord! Psalm 121 begins with a question: "I look up to the hills, but where does my help come from?" We could just as easily rewrite that to say, "I look to the ______, but where does my help come from?" Now fill in the blank with whatever is your "savior" of choice these days. Are you looking to diet or exercise or location or investments or politics or entertainment or . . . ??
Where does my help come from? My help comes . . . from . . . the . . . Lord . . . who made heaven and earth. Who made heaven and earth. He made all this stuff (including us). He knows exactly what’s happening. He provided food—the perfect nutritious food—for the Israelites as they wandered in the desert. He provided water for them and their animals for 40 years. He is fully able to provide completely and absolutely for us wherever we find ourselves, whatever our circumstances. He is our provision. Are there better ways we could live? Absolutely! But none of them will avail us of anything if we aren’t living in the center of His will. He is working all things for our good. It’s time that we began to truly look to Him and trust Him.
Where does my help come from? It comes from my Savior and Lord . . . always and forever!
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