From Where Does My Help Come?

Psalms 121:1-8 ESV

“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.

He will not let your foot be moved;

    he who keeps you will not slumber.

Behold, he who keeps Israel

    will neither slumber nor sleep.

“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.

The Lord will keep

    your going out and your coming in

    from this time forth and forevermore.”

Please don’t put your dependency in other humans to lead you in the right way. Don’t expect that just because someone has the title of “pastor” or “Reverend” that it necessarily means that this person has your best interest at heart, or that he is following in the ways of the Lord, or that what he is teaching you is the truth. What he says may sound good, but that doesn’t mean that it is good. Just because it appears that he is teaching the Scriptures, it doesn’t mean that what he is teaching is the truth of the Scriptures. But it doesn’t mean that he isn’t teaching the truth, either.

And if you don’t like what one preacher is preaching, and so you decide to trade him out for another one, don’t expect that the other one is necessarily going to be any better. So many of them today are following the ways of man and not the ways of God. So many of them are altering and diluting the Scriptures to make them more acceptable and appealing and appeasing to human flesh. So many of them are more concerned with growing their earthly kingdoms than they are with growing the kingdom of God.

And just because some people say that they are Christians, it doesn’t mean that they are true biblical Christians. It doesn’t mean that they are in true relationships with the Lord Jesus at all. It doesn’t necessitate that they are even walking in fellowship with the Lord and that they are students of the Scriptures and that they are following the Lord in obedience to his commands under the New Covenant. For they may be giving lip service only to the Lord while they are still living in deliberate sin against the Lord.

So, why am I saying all of that? Because our dependency has to be in the Lord and not in other humans. Our help needs to come from the Lord. He is the one we should be depending on for our moral and spiritual support. He is the one we should be relying upon to keep us from all evil and to help us to not fall into sin. Too many professing Christians are relying too heavily on other humans for their support and their help and their direction and their counsel and for biblical truth, instead of relying on God and on his Word.

But this isn’t just in the spiritual realm. This includes the physical realm. Far too many Christians are running too easily to drugs and to doctors and to psychiatrists and to psychologists to cure them of what ails them, or to alleviate them of pain and suffering, without first running to God and praying and inquiring of the Lord as to what he wants them to do, or as to who he wants them to trust alone and to not put their dependency in other humans to solve what only God can solve, and to heal what only God can heal.

For God is our maker. He is the one who created us. He is the only one who knows us inside out. And he is the only one with the power to heal us and to change us and to cure us of what ails us, in reality. And I am not saying that God never uses any medicine or that he never uses other humans or doctors or whatever. The point is that he is to be the one we go to first, and that we run to with our problems. And then we should be letting him be the one to lead us and to guide us in making the right decisions for our lives.

So many Christians are leaning heavily on modern psychology and humanistic philosophy and marketing schemes and feel-good messages, which are all of man (of humans) to guide them in what to do and in where to go and in how to behave and in what to believe. But we need to be running to God in prayer, and we need to be running to the Scriptures to guide and direct our lives. And I am not excluding any human counsel or any medical advice, but that we need to go to God first and foremost.

For that is the whole point of this passage of Scripture. Our help is to come from the Lord. He is the one who will help us to not fall and to remain steadfast in our walks of faith. He is the one who will keep us and watch over us and protect us from evil so that we do not cave to the pressures of this world to live worldly and ungodly lives, just so we will be loved and accepted by the people of the world. So, we need to be those who are running to him and who are letting him be the one to determine our steps.

When in The Stillness  

An Original Work / September 26, 2011

When in the stillness of this moment,

Speak to me, Lord, I humbly pray.

Be my desire, set me on fire,

Teach me to love always.

Help me to walk in fellowship with You,

Listening to You; sit at Your feet.

Whisper Your words to me, 

Oh, how gently, guiding me in Your truth. 

While we are waiting for Your blessing,

Lord, in our hearts be King today.

Help us to live for you ev’ry moment,

List’ning to what You say.

May we not stray from your word within us,

Help us obey You, Lord, in all things,

Walking each moment, Lord, in Your presence,

Our offerings to You bring.

Help us to love You, Lord, our master;

Be an example of Your love,

Helping the hurting, lift up the fallen,

Showing them Your great love.

Teach them to love You, follow You always,

Bearing their cross and turning from sin;

Walking in daily fellowship with You,

Making You Lord and King.

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