From the Morning Scripture Readings

Posted by Kendall Harmon

1 A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From whence does my help come? 2 My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. 3 He will not let your foot be moved, he who keeps you will not slumber. 4 Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. 5 The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade on your right hand. 6 The sun shall not smite you by day, nor the moon by night. 7 The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. 8 The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and for evermore.

--Psalm 121, somehow oh so appropriate in this week as Thanksgiving and Advent approach

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1. Pageantmaster [Free Archbishop Cranmer] wrote:

An amazing psalm on many levels. 

I lift up my eyes to the hills. From whence does my help come?

I still do not know how the psalmist regards the hills - is it with fear, wondering where he is going to get help; or is he expecting help from God to come from the hills?
Or is it even more complicated and both?

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