{"id":413,"date":"2012-02-26T07:48:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T15:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teach4god.com\/OTS\/?p=413"},"modified":"2014-04-02T05:31:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T12:31:54","slug":"psalm-121","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/02\/26\/psalm-121\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 121"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psalm 121<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

This is another Psalm of Ascents<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>, or Pilgrim Psalms.<\/p>\n

Verses 1-2-This verse has been used in songs to describe God’s help (“I Lift My Eyes Up<\/a>“). Yet it is describing God’s help as contrary to the help others have received from the mountains (Jeremiah 3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>, particularly verse 23). Our help does not come from the mountains, as some suppose. The mountains are a source of danger, corruption, and syncretism. Our help comes from the God of Heaven. We look to the Creator for our help and not as the pagans who look to the creation. This is mentioned a few psalms later (Psalm 124.8<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n

Verses 3-4-The writer proclaims and praises who God is in these two verses.<\/p>\n

Verses 5-6-Again, the writer praises God for who He is and for what He does.<\/p>\n

Verses 7-8-Again, the writer is praising God.<\/p>\n

This psalm is called a pilgrim psalm because it describes what God does for the pilgrim on his way to Jerusalem for the holy days. Reading through the psalm using a traveler as a walking metaphor, we can understand this better.<\/p>\n

When we travel, we seek protection from robbers and the elements. Here the traveler seeks God’s protection from the scorching heat and the robbers by night. On the journey, they seek God’s firm foothold where their feet will walk. God provides protection from robbers because He needs no sleep, He provides protection from the elements because He is greater than they are, and He keeps them on the right path because He knows the beginning from the end.<\/p>\n

On our journey through life, are we asking God to be\u00a0our Guide and Protector? This is one of the benefits of having the Holy Spirit indwell us as believers. He is Protector and Guide in our journey through life (John 14.16-31 and 16.5-15<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>). God protects us 24 hours a day. He keeps us all the time. The word “keep” is used\u00a0six times in this chapter. He indeed cares for us. He keeps us to the very end (Jude 24<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verses 1-2-This verse has been used in songs to describe God’s help (“I Lift My Eyes Up”). Yet it is describing God’s help as contrary to the help others have received from the mountains (Jeremiah 3, particularly verse 23). Our help does not come from the mountains, as some suppose. The mountains are a source of danger, corruption, and syncretism. Our help comes from the God of Heaven. We look to the Creator for our help and not as the pagans who look to the creation. This is mentioned a few psalms later (Psalm 124.8)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,114],"tags":[42,24,95,110,338,152,32,115,26,19],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-daily-studies","category-psalms","tag-fear","tag-god","tag-holy-spirit","tag-jeremiah","tag-jude","tag-music","tag-promises","tag-psalm","tag-remember","tag-syncretism","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}