Dear Friends and Family! A lesson from the Psalmist will bring us to the place where we seek help only from above!
Psalm 121:2: "My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth."
The psalmist now sings a choice sonnet and looks away for the slanderers by whom he was tormented to the Lord who sees all from His high places and is READY TO COMFORT HIS INJURED SERVANT. Help comes to believers only from above; they look elsewhere in vain. Let us lift up our eyes with hope, expectation, desire, and confidence.
Satan will try to keep our eyes on our sorrows so that we will worry and be discouraged, but we should firmly resolve that we will look out and up. Those who lift up their eyes to the eternal hills will soon have their hearts lifted up also.
The purposes of God - His attributes, the unchanging promises, the covenant, providence, predestination, and the proven faithfulness of the Lord - these are the hills to which we must lift our eyes, for from these our help must come. We are determined not to be bandaged and blindfolded, but will lift UP OUR EYES.
What we need is help that is powerful, efficient, constant; we need a very present help in trouble (Psalm 46:1). What a blessing that we have in in our God! Our hope is in Jehovah, for our help comes from Him.
Help is on the way and will not fail to reach us in time, for He who sends it to us has never been late. Jehovah, who created all things, is equal to every emergency; heaven and earth are at His disposal, therefore let us be joyful in our all-powerful Helper.
We must look beyond heaven and earth to Him who made them. It is vain to trust the creatures; it is wise to trust the Creator.
I'm so thankful to present these words from the writings of the learned C.H. Spurgeon's Treasury of David. They often speak to me in the time I need them most. Be lifted up above and beyond your circumstances. Our Father knows our needs! He has already met them in in Christ Jesus! Help is on the way to you now as you seek Him above all others. You will have a glorious testimony again of His goodness! You'll see!
In the Love of Jesus,
James Wesley
