An Uncertain Journey
February 20, 2011
I lift my eyes up to the hills. From where does help come to me?
Help comes to me from Yahweh, who has made heaven and earth.
He does not let your foot waver, your keeper does not sleep!
Behold, neither sleeps nor slumbers the keeper of Israel!
Yahweh is your keeper, Yahweh is your shade about your right hand!
By day the sun does not strike, nor the moon by night.
Yahweh protects you against all harm, he protects your life.
Yahweh protects your going out and coming in from now on and forever.
Psalm 121
As a senior in the last semester of college, I don’t know many of my peers who have a solid plan for more than the next two years of their life. If you were to ask most of us what we’re doing in three months, we have no idea. Of course we have our dreams and ambitions, but looking past the next three months can be as scary as the original Nightmare On Elm Street. For some, that’s an ongoing fear. For others, it’s another exciting curve in the road. We rest in the fact that when we know absolutely nothing, GOD still knows everything and in that, he takes us to places we never dreamed possible.
I just started Beth Moore’s Stepping Up study with my girls at school. To say the least, it’s incredible. A lot of women had recommended Beth Moore studies to me, I’m so glad that this one is the one that God had for me and my girls. A couple of them told me it fits so perfectly with what’s going on in their lives, which is so great and it’s amazing how perfectly it fits with my life too. This study looks at the 15 Psalms of Acsent (120 to 134). These Psalms have been connected to songs that were sung by the Jewish people as they made their pilgrimage to the Temple. The songs are filled with both pain and praise. The uncertain journey that the Jewish people who sang the songs at the time they were penned, is much like the uncertain journey we are facing now.
“I don’t have a hard time piecing together why a traveler on an uncertain journey would want to remind himself that his God and his covenant LORD is the uncontested Maker of heaven and earth.”
That quote is in reference to Psalm 121. Beth points out a crucial point in this portion of the study. In the midst of our confusion and uncertainty, our God is still the same Maker of heaven and earth. This fact puts me at such an incredible peace knowing that of all of the people I love in my life who are really struggling right now, there isn’t one who isn’t under the protection of that mighty God. He has promised to protect us and he will never abandon that promise.
“He tends to us. He watches over us. He has never entrusted that job to anyone else.” – BM
