Today’s reading is Psalm 124.
How Did WE Get Here?
We’ve followed the pilgrim on his journey one step at a time. One psalm at a time. He began in Meshech and Kedar. More significantly, he began among warmongers. When he was for peace, they were for war. Over the hills he traveled into the city. Even still the taunts of enemies chased him. In Psalm 124, he stopped to consider, “How did I get here?” His answer?
The LORD.
If not for the Lord, the Kedarians and Meshechians, the warmongers who hate peace, would have swallowed him alive. They would have conquered and crushed him. But the Lord was on His side. The Lord was for him.
The Psalms repeatedly express trust in the Lord’s aid.
In God, whose word I praise,
in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.
What can flesh do to me?
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In God, whose word I praise,
in the LORD, whose word I praise,
in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.
What can man do to me?
Psalm 56:4, 10-11 (ESV)The LORD is on my side; I will not fear.
What can man do to me?
The LORD is on my side as my helper;
I shall look in triumph on those who hate me.
Psalm 118:6-7 (ESV)
And already in the Songs of Ascents:
From where does my help come?
My help comes from the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.
Psalm 121:1b-2 (ESV)
Paul takes up this same theme for us in Romans 8:31:
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? (ESV)
Paul asks what can separate us from God and His love? Can tribulation? Distress? Persecution? Famine? Nakedness? Danger? Sword? Nope! “In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.”
We travel alongside the pilgrim. Each step of the way, both we and the pilgrim hold on to the hand of our Helper. No matter what we face, He will carry us through.
Praise the Lord!
Tomorrow’s reading is Psalm 124.
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