Where does our help come from?

These days when I look at everything that is happening in the world, I do sometimes wonder "where will our help come from?"  The world is falling apart bit by bit everyday.  Daily there are reports of hunger, war, violence, corruption, natural disasters, illness etc... enough to make us look around in fear and uncertainty.  I am sure the Psalmist felt like this when he wrote psalm 121.  Not only does He say that our help is from the creator of the universe, but also gives the assurance that God will not allow our feet to be moved, that our God does not sleep nor slumber, that He is at our right hand side, that He is our keeper in all and every natural circumstances, but above all that He Himself will keep us from evil, preserve our soul and watch over our coming in and going out - forevermore!

What an assurance that we have the God who created heaven and earth, mountains and sun and moon - He himself will preserve us and keep us from evil!

Psalm 121

A Song of Ascents.

121 I will lift up my eyes to the hills—
From whence comes my help?
² My help comes from the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth.

³ He will not allow your foot to be moved;
He who keeps you will not slumber.
⁴ Behold, He who keeps Israel
Shall neither slumber nor sleep.

⁵ The Lord is your keeper;
The Lord is your shade at your right hand.
⁶ The sun shall not strike you by day,
Nor the moon by night.

⁷ The Lord shall preserve you from all evil;
He shall preserve your soul.
⁸ The Lord shall preserve your going out and your coming in
From this time forth, and even forevermore.

 I lift my eyes up (Brian Doerksen)