Raise your eyes

3/18/2009 Raise your eyes!
Psalms 121:1-2
v:1) I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help,
v:2) My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.

At first glace this scripture seems old to many. They wonder what it means when the Word would tell us to look up to the hill or mountains or high places. As if this meant we should trust in some “thing” here in the created physical world.
This scripture is actually pointing and directing us to a higher place of confidence. It is saying that there is a higher source of authority from which flows total power that controls and over rides our physical reality.
When we find ourselves in the wine press of the enemy, being squeezed and buffeted from every direction, what are we to do? Where do we turn? Often in many American Christian lives, they have placed their confidence in relief systems and programs.
While these systems help numerous people and do good they have caused our faith to falter. No longer do many of Gods’ people turn to Him first and plead their case. I am not saying these systems don’t have their place in our society, but they should never take the place of God in the Christians’ confidence.
We are not to trust in abilities, powers or instruments of earthly kingdoms. They are not our provisions for whatever they can provide us are only temporary and never satisfy our deep seated needs.
The Christian congregation must return to believe that only in God is every need satisfied. That ultimately our situations will only change for the better through Christ.
Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Look at this scripture closely. Notice it says very plainly “all things”. I believe all things are sometimes those hard, difficult and dreaded things that we often find ourselves in.
Psalms 23:4
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
1 Corinthians 10:13
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

These two verse say that we will sometimes “walk through” and we will be “tempted”. Sometimes God has to allow us to go through things, He never removes all the valleys or temptations,
But this confidence we have; lift up our eyes to the hills from whence comes our help, his staff and rod will lead us for he shall make a way to deliver us.
WHAT DO YOU TOTALLY TRUST IN!