Summary
Pastor Safrit walks through Psalm 121, emphasizing that our help comes from the Lord, the creator of heaven and earth. He illustrates how God is both powerful and personal, assuring us that He protects us from harm and guides us through life's challenges. The sermon encourages believers to trust in God's presence and provision, especially when facing difficulties, reminding us that He is always with us, ready to support and sustain us on our journey of faith.
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If you have your Bible, it will be in Psalms, chapter 121. They're our last Psalm of the Psalms series. I'm going to try not to kick that water over. Today, because I preach, and I'm going to try not to trip this morning.
I've already tripped one time up here, and so pray for me. My wife said if she sees me trip, she will die laughing. And so if you have a kid that wants to go to Children's Church, that's available for you as well. Psalms 121 this morning is where we'll be at today.
I have enjoyed very much the last eight weeks of preaching through and listening to the Psalms that have been preached. Stephen did one of those.
And we'll finish today at Psalms 121. And you can remain seated this morning. You've been up and down a lot. We'll just read the scripture and get started today. The Bible says in verse 1, I lift my eyes toward the mountains. Where will my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to slip. Your protector will not slumber. Indeed, the protector of Israel does not slumber or sleep.
The Lord protects you. The Lord is a shelter right by your side. The sun will not strike you by day or the moon by night. The Lord will protect you from all harm. He will protect your life. The Lord will protect your comings and goings both now and forever.
Let us pray. Lord, we love you. Again, thank you for this word. Thank you for the music.
Thank you for this song that Addie sang and the young people sang up here. The adults sang as we worship your name.
Lord, you're holy, you're true. And I thank you for what you've done for us. Thank you for this last week. I know it's been exhausting, but it's been a rewarding week as well. And we thank you for being a faithful God. In your name we pray. Amen.
A couple of things as we get started today. I was reading through an old history book.
I came across this story from World War II. It's called the greatest rescue mission in all of World War II. Late in the war, American bombers were sent on a dangerous mission over Southern Europe to cripple the Nazis'
oil supply. Hundreds of crews were flying in tin cans, soaring through storms of anti-aircraft shells. Many American pilots were forced to bail from their shot-up planes.
Story of Rescue in Yugoslavia
The injured airmen drifted by parachute into occupied Yugoslavia. They were expected to be captured or killed. Instead, on the ground was a remarkable rescue team that were waiting and in place from Serbian peasants.
They tracked the path of the floating flight of men, and their sole mission was to grab these men and bring them to safety instead of being captured by the Nazis when they arrived. They risked their own lives. These were peasants fed and sheltered.
These drowned soldiers, they were rescued by men that were friendly hands, but they were still on enemy soil.
They still needed a way of escape. The story became known as Operation Haylord, and it builds up to this mission of a secret landing strip that they had formed and made place, and this clandestine evacuation had begun to go underway. And though these Serbian peasants began to help these American airmen,
their goal was to take them from where they were at, 500 of them that they had rescued, to this landing strip.
The fascinating part of this rescue is they traveled the excavation site, men after men, spending weeks and weeks following the Serbian fighter freedom men, who they alone only knew the path.
They did not speak the language. They did not know how to talk to them. There was no way to communicate with them.
Only thing they knew was these men are here. They're here to help me, and I've got to follow them. They couldn't say, hey, where are we going next? Are we going to stop at a Starbucks soon? Is there a Dunkin' on the way somewhere?
Is there going to be a Chick-fil-A somewhere? All they knew was these men are here. I think they're taking me to the right destination, and I've just got to follow them.
The men had been saved from their enemy, but the journey had just begun. They still had to walk to their freedom. This operation sets light on the important spiritual reality of each and every one of us. We need to be rescued from something, and that begins on a path towards something else.
For these airmen, this journey began with survival. For us, it's the journey of faith, one who has saved us and is now calling us to walk in his way.
You see, as we talked about even this week as young people came, and we told them this statement here, this is a non-negotiable. We must walk in the way of the Lord.
He has snatched us from a spiritual death, and we are now on a life that is full of his life, and Christ rescues us to a point, and then he says, now I need you to get on this
path and follow me. As we looked at it this morning in youth, as we began looking through 1 John, the Bible says that those who say they love him but do not obey his commands are fooling themselves and are liars because they don't obey his commands.
And so when we stop and we begin to look at our circumstances ahead, in this case, in this specific psalm, the psalmist lifts up his eyes and says to the mountains ahead of him, the circumstances are just too hard for me.
The circumstances that I see are just going to be too hard. And oftentimes we as Christians look at the circumstances, the hills of the journey, and we begin to say,
is it going to be too hard? And am I willing to embark on this journey? You see, as the Israelites were looking at this psalm and they began to look at the hills, the hills here were filled with thieves and criminals.
They were hiding in the mountains because they knew the Jews had to go through this journey to get to the Passover. They knew that they had to go through this mountain to get to Jerusalem. And so they hung out.
They had robbers that were there that would kill people, that would take women, that would take them and they would rape them, they would take them and they would abuse them. And they looked at these hills and they saw these hills as something that was going to be almost impossible to go over.
But they knew they had to get there. They knew that they had to take this journey.
And so when we begin to think in this, our minds of this journey that they're on and the journey that we're on, this is how the Lord opens up this psalm through David by saying, I lift up my eyes from a mountain, where will my help come from with a question mark?
Seeking Help from the Lord
And this morning as we open up, we have to ask ourselves, where is my help?
This opening is saying that this help comes from the Lord. And when we face death, when we face trials, when we face sicknesses, when we face pain, and we face any other circumstances in our life, the Lord says, I'm here for your help. I'm here for you in this journey.
You see, these mountains in our life, they're huge. I'm not here to say that just because you become a Christian, all the mountains begin to be cut down and you're going to walk on nice flat ground. There are some hard mountains we're going to go through.
But what do these mountains represent in our life? You know, oftentimes in scripture, when we think of a mountain, we would think as a refuge. Someone would say, the Lord is my refuge.
He's my rock. He's my salvation. And when they think of a mountain, they're thinking, you know, that's a place of getaway, right? You may have a mountain home or a place where you get away.
Me and my wife, we love just going up to Asheville and going up into the mountains of Black Mountain and just getting away for a couple of days. And we've went up to Ridgecrest and we've got away for a little bit. You know, the mountains can seem as a place of refuge.
Those mountains surrounding Jerusalem was a representation that the Lord was there to protect them.
As Jerusalem sits down in a valley and everywhere you look around, there's mountains. God is saying, I'm going to protect you, Israel. Mountains can also symbolize the anticipation of arriving to Jerusalem.
You've been traveling. You've been on your journey for days and weeks as you're coming from the Sea of Galilee up to Jerusalem and you see these mountains and you're just excited.
I'm almost there. We're almost going to get there. We're leaving to go to Arkansas right after church today and we're going to drive through Tennessee and Tennessee is one of the worst states to drive through.
It's like you drive and drive and drive and you look up and you're still in Tennessee.
But it's almost when you come across that bridge there in Memphis, if you've ever been on I-40, and you come across that bridge and you see the welcome to Arkansas sign, for us it's like a breath of fresh air. We know we're almost there.
This is the journey that these children of Israel and they're going down the road, they're going down, they went through all the heartaches and now all of a sudden they see the mountains and they're like, we're there.
We've made it to the mountains. But then in the back of their mind they begin to think,
there's danger there though. You know, there's a sense of this pilgrimage where they begin to say, robbers and thieves are there to harm us. There's bandits there that serve a pagan god.
How am I going to get through this? How am I going to get over this mountain with my family and my young children and make it through this alive? How am I going to get through this? It almost seems that the psalmist begins to reflect in his mind.
He begins to think back and recall stories of old. You know, that was my forefather Abraham.
Abraham, he left his family in a comfortable place and went to a strange land. The people there didn't know him, they were his enemies and yet God provided for him.
You think of Joseph and they began to think of Joseph and how he was sold into slavery and how time after time bad things happened but God provided and God was there for Joseph.
Moses, who led the Israelites out of bondage and out of slavery and the Lord brought them out of this into a promised land. My mind went to the Israelites as they were traveling through the wilderness.
The Lord provided manna for them every morning and quail for them at night for them to have fresh bread and fresh meat every single day. He provided water out of a rock where God spoke to a rock through Moses and water came out of it. Things that we can't even imagine.
The Israelites are thinking, you know, God provided then and then as your mind moves through the judges and the kings and now they're at the kings and they're talking through this in their mind, they begin to think, the Lord has provided so much. He understands us and he's on this journey with us but I fear that oftentimes,
church, we're at this point where we hesitate to say, Lord, are you even on my journey?
I'm going through life. I'm trying to figure out where to go but God, I feel like you're not even near me. This is the psalmist. He says, I lift my eyes toward the mountain. Where is my help? God, where are you even at?
He begins to ponder for just a moment because oftentimes, I see us struggling with even seeing the Lord's hand in our life
and seeing when the Lord begins to work things in our life and through our life, we fail at times even seeing His working hand in our life.
I often think that it's good for us to step back and look around and see what God has done and see what the Lord is doing and how the Lord is good and He is there for us.
You see, He says here in verse 2, my help comes from the Lord. In this moment, almost, there's, in my mind, there's a
hour-long break between verse 1 and verse 2. He may have wrote this in one complete thought
but I almost think He wrote verse 1, I lift up my eyes toward the mountain. Where does my help come from? And He just sort of put His pen down. He just sort of stepped back and was like, where is my help? Where am I going to get help from?
Am I going to go to my friends? Am I going to go to the king who's trying to kill me?
And in my mind, it took Him hours and hours to even get to verse 2. We read it as, my help comes from the Lord, but I really truly think that it took Him a long time to even write down,
my help comes from the Lord. Because we begin, as we look around, we begin to see what the Lord has done. And we begin to see, as we look at number 2, the Lord's watching hand.
We begin to see that when the Lord is around us and we begin to see that He's the maker of the heavens and the earth, it changes our atmosphere, it changes our attitude, it changes everything about us. When we truly begin to see the Lord's watching hand in our life.
And how does this look like in a practical way? The first one is, He's powerful.
Look, He says, the maker of heaven and earth. It gives the attributes of who He is. He made the heavens and the earth.
A little word study for you here. Five times in this psalm, the psalmist identifies the Lord as His helper with the Lord or the word Yahweh as John spoke about a couple weeks ago.
This is the covenantal name that God is identifying Himself as the self-existent, eternal, unchangeable God. He is over all, He controls all, and He is the all in all.
And this is who He is saying here when He says that my God, my help, comes from the maker of the heaven and the earth. It's the one who spoke the world into existence.
He's the one that reached down into man and breathed the breath of life into mankind. And He said, this is the God who I serve. This is the God who I love. And this is the idea, if God can make the world,
then surely He has the power to take care of me in this situation.
But how often do we get to that point? We know He made the world, but do we ever bring that into the realization that He is there to help us?
That He is there to help us in that situation? You see, the psalmist doesn't look at creation and say, well, can creation help me today?
Is this palm tree over here, is it going to be able to help me today? Is this rock going to be a fortress for me?
No, He doesn't look at creation. He doesn't look at the things around Him. He doesn't look at the people around Him. He only looks at the Creator, God Himself, and says, that's where my help comes from. Because He is powerful. Because God is the most powerful thing that we can ever think.
And when we truly understand this thought in our head, when we truly understand the power that God has, how He spoke the universes into existence that are greater than we can ever imagine, that are more vast than we've ever been able to uncover,
and we really begin to centralize this down to say, He lives inside of us.
Right? The Holy Spirit lives inside of us if we believe in Him. That's the power that's inside of us.
And how often do we not tap into that power because we say, you know what, I'm going to do my own thing. God, I know you're powerful, but I really think I've got it today. I don't really need to pray.
I don't really need to study your Word. I don't really need to be in a community of people. I'm just going to do my own thing because I'm pretty big and I can handle this myself. And we begin to realize that He looks down at us and He says, please turn to me.
Please be like the psalmist and say, my help comes from the Lord. My help doesn't come from self.
God's Personal Protection
My help doesn't come from people around me. But my help comes from the Lord because He is powerful. Not only is He powerful this morning, verse 3 says He's personal. Look at what verse 3 says. He will not allow your foot to slip. The protector will not slumber.
Oh, this is a personal invitation. He says, I won't even let your foot slip as you're going across this mountain.
God knows how easy it is for us to slip back into our sin, to slip into discouragement that is around us everywhere we look at.
You may be able to write some of these scriptures down. I'm not going to read them for sake of time. Hebrews 13, 5 talks about how we are surrounded by a personal God.
Matthew 28, 20 Romans 8, 31 Hebrews 7, 25 all talks about the promise that He will sustain us through the presence and the power of God.
I want you to imagine it with me like this. God is like our shadow.
I don't want you to really like theologically critique me here, but I want you to imagine it's 12 o'clock outside. You're walking outside.
There's not a cloud in the sky. And you're standing in the parking lot and there's a shadow there beside you. God is there and He's like that shadow. You can't get rid of Him.
The only way to get rid of Him is to hide and run and get away from Him. We're going to look at that in depth over the next couple of months, the next couple of weeks. But God is so personal.
He's like our shadow who's there with us. I want you to bring it down even closer. Imagine a one and a half year old, a one year old that's just now beginning to walk.
No one in their right mind says, all right, here, Hudson, go walk. And we just walk away from them and we just look at them from a distance. What do we do? We get there and we're walking beside them. We're holding their hands and we're saying, okay, take another step. You got this.
And they take that step and we go crazy when they take that step. And we're right there beside them. We're personal.
We're with them. And they take another step. And that's how that child begins to grow because they hear that affirmation. They hear us there with them. They hear us there for them. But oftentimes, we get to that point, they turn to and we just step away. And they miss that affirmation.
They miss that encouragement that we give. And God says, I'm right there beside you every step of your way.
I'm helping you make those steps. Will you just acknowledge that I'm there? Will you just acknowledge that I'm here helping you on your way? And oftentimes, we look at God and we say, God, I got this. Just get out of my way. You're causing too much pain in my life. Let me do my own thing.
And that's when we step and we fall, as Hudson did this morning as he was coming in and scraped his knee. Had to put a Band-Aid on it. Oftentimes, this is how God is. He's close to us. He's described as our comforter.
The thing that we can't get away from is that God comforts us in all of our storms. All of our kids have been attracted to really soft things, right? Blankets, teddy bears, Jade loves squishmallows right now. We've got all their very first blankets. Hudson has a shark blanket.
We, a couple of weeks ago, we were leaving to go to kids camp. And Brody was helping him get in the car and he left his shark blanket here. We were taking him to our mother-in-law's, my wife's mom's house.
And she said, James, we don't have that shark blanket. He will not survive this next week without the shark blanket. I said, oh. So I had to get in the Jeep, drove all the way up here, was laying in the nursery. Like, that's how attached he is to it.
And oftentimes, we're attached to, we should be attached to God that way. God, I don't have you today. I need you.
God, I haven't prayed today and I realized that and I just feel lost and I need you in my life today. But how often is it we go without those things because we've replaced God with other things?
God's Constant Presence
Because he's not personal to us. You see, these are the things that comforts us in our storms.
And God says he wants to comfort us when we're in our storms because he will not even allow your foot to slip. But also, he goes on, not only is he powerful, not only is he personal, in verses four and six, he is our protector. Look at this, your protector will not slumber.
Indeed, the protector of Israel will not slumber or sleep.
How great of a thought of it is that God doesn't even sleep. You know, there's times when we grow weary and we need rest and,
you know, an exhausting week of Bible school happens and we're spending lots and lots of hours and we're working and we're serving and next week, I'm asking a lot of you, I'm asking you to come up here and
to serve and to work and to help and just be in our community and serve people around us and I understand it's exhausting and I understand just as you do when you get home, you want to kick your
shoes off, you want to sit back and you want to relax and you just want to take a deeper breath of fresh air and say, just let me rest for a moment and I'm so thankful that as we think through that picture, God doesn't say, I'm really exhausted right now.
The needs that you're asking me are too much. Just let me rest. No, God looks and says,
what can I do for you now? What do you need, son? What do you need, daughter? Thank you for coming to me. I'm never going to get too exhausted. I'm never going to get too tired. I want to hear you. I need to, I just, I long to hear after you
because God says, I don't ever grow weary. I don't ever need rest. I'm never going to let my guard down. You're never going to catch me napping.
I'm always going to be there. I'm always going to be around you. I am going to protect you. Look at verse five. The Lord protects you.
The Lord is a shelter by your right hand and then he begins to go through this word picture we're going to get into because these are the context of the children of Israel going through the desert. They're marching on.
They're fighting and he says this in verse six. The sun will not strike you and by the day or by the moon, the moon will not strike you at night. You see, there's areas that we all begin to get weak in and unfortunately, our enemy knows our weaknesses.
Our enemy knows that Elijah was renowned for his courage yet he fled from one woman named Jezebel.
He stood up to those prophets of Baal and he said, oh yeah, go ahead and call down your fire from heaven.
I've been at that site. It's a massive site. It's huge.
It's awesome and you can just picture the fire coming down from heaven while Elijah's standing there and he's sort of mocking their other gods and he saw God work in a mighty way and then one woman comes out
and he runs and tucks tail and goes and says, God's not bigger than that woman. Some of you men in here may be thinking, that's my wife. I know.
All right, got a couple people to laugh a little bit. But Elijah, Satan knew his weakness. Moses had great strength.
His strength was in his meekness. He wasn't angry. He was able to handle the children of Israel until a moment when the children of Israel began to complain so much and God said, go and speak to the rock so the water can come out and he said,
I got so mad, I picked my staff up and I hit it.
And in that moment, God said, you disobeyed me, son and you'll never see the promised land. You'll never step foot in the promised land because you disobeyed me in front of my people. Satan knows our weaknesses.
Satan knew that Abraham's greatest strength was his faith in the Lord yet his unbelief when he went to Egypt was his downfall. When he told the Egyptian gods and the Egyptian kings, this is my sister, it's not my wife. And Abraham began to fall in that moment because Satan knows our weakness.
Satan knows these things about us and when we're weak, our enemy takes advantage of them but our protector is in God. You see, he uses this statement here in the end of verse 6. The sun will not strike you by day or the moon by night.
And there's a really cool research that I did. I'm not going to bore you with all the research but there was a cloud of fire by night that the Israelites were covered with and there was a cloud of, a cloud of, a cloud of, a cloud by day and a fire by night. There we go.
I knew it was going to come out at some point. Okay. I have never been sun-stroken. Okay. I try to avoid the sun touching my body at most times. Okay.
When we go to the beach or when we go out on vacation, I either lather up in suntan lotion or I take a really nice umbrella because I don't like to get sunburned. My body goes from two colors.
It goes from white to red and red to white. There is no such thing as a tan on my body.
And so there's no point in me trying to get sunburned because I'm just going to go back white and I'm going to have to deal with everything. Okay.
And so that's just how my body is. Okay. But the sun affects us in a terrible way. When we get sunburned, we itch, we can't function, our bodies are in distress.
And God said, when you're out in the middle of the desert, I'm going to provide a cloud by the day. And this cloud is going to overstretch the arm, overstretch all of this to protect you. But then he put a fire by night.
And this one was a really cool one that I never really thought about, but there are people that begin to get what's called moonstrokes.
Moonstrokes affect our mind. They make us to go crazy when we are exposed to unfiltered atmospheric moon like temperatures or whatever it may be.
I'm not a scientist. I just understood that when we are exposed to too much moonlight in too much amount of time that our mind begins to go crazy. You can really see this happen if you go up into Alaska. Up in Alaska where they have 20 hours of daytime and four hours of night.
And then in the opposite time of that where they'll have 20 hours of darkness sometimes 24 hours of darkness and never see the sun. I know a friend of mine,
her mom, still to this day, they live six years in Alaska and still to this day she has mental disabilities and problems from not being exposed to the sun enough.
Because just being exposed to the moon will hurt us as well. So when he says this, the sun will not strike you by day and the moon by night, he is literally saying I'm going to protect you.
God's Peace in Trials
When the heat is on, I'm going to be there to guard you. When our minds are under attack, I'm going to fill your minds with strength. I'm going to protect you and I'm going to give you peace. Philippians 4, 7 talks about that.
But then he goes on to say not only am I going to do all these other things, I am going to be your preserver. Verses 7 and 8, I will protect you from all harm. He will protect your life.
The Lord will protect you from your comings and goings both now and forever. This refers to both the evil that exists within us and the evil that surrounds us. The flesh is not redeemed and it is much like a volcano. Our flesh is still flesh.
We have the spirit that lives within us but the Bible says that we are attacked within and we begin to do the things that are within us because we are fully part of sin and it is bent up
inside of us and it can explode like a volcano at any moment. And the answer to this lies in the Holy Spirit. See there's this evil that comes from within us and it begins to attack us from without.
First Peter says like this, he comes with us in the form of a satanic attack that is very real and the devil wants you to fail. He is like a roaring lion that is coming into us and he is wanting us to fail.
But in Ephesians he says this, I'm so thankful that the Lord is there to help us and to enable us to stand against the devil and upon all of his attacks.
You see he preserves us whether we're going in or we're getting close to God or whether we're going out and we're drifting away. The Bible says he is the preserver of our soul.
I want you to imagine it like this. The planets in our solar system circle one central object that's called our sun.
And as they begin to go on this gravitational pull the sun pulls them into their direction where they need to be done. Where they need to be at and it is a meticulous scientifically proven way that the sun keeps all these in order so they don't crash into each other.
And in that same way God says I should be at the center of your life and I am the gravitational pull of everything around you as long as I'm centered.
But when we begin to misplace our priorities God begins to be misplaced in our life and our life begins to go out of whack.
I want to end by saying it like this who is going to help you? Who is going to help you?
I wrote all these out for you because I came across a series of these questions that really helped me ponder them. I've got different commentaries that I get things from and these questions were laid out.
And so on the back of your paper I wrote them out for you. Who's going to help you when the gas and groceries and other expenses keep rising while your income doesn't keep up? Who's going to help you when temptations arise within your heart?
Who's going to help you when Satan launches an attack against your life? Who's going to help you when troubles and trials and problems begin to overwhelm you? Your heart and your mind and your soul.
Who is going to help you when the bottom falls out of life and you see that there's nowhere to turn? Who's going to help you when your friends and your family and all your other resources fail?
Trusting God's Help
Who's going to help you when you don't even know how to help yourself? There's one who can help.
Church this morning there's his name is God. He's here to help you. He's here to have the ability that he possesses and he alone possesses to help you. And he will help you because he possesses the will to help. We do not.
As Terry comes and begins to play I'm going to close with one story. Who's going to help you? The Lord is the one and the only one who can help us.
Heard a story I don't know if it's true or not but we lived in Idaho for four years and there was a lake up in northern Idaho Miss Norma and me were talking just the other day she's got some friends that live actually right beside this lake it's called McCall, Idaho.
It's a massive lake it's really really huge and during the summer people go out and fish but in the winter it freezes completely over
and people go out and they I've seen it before by very own eyes well they'll drive vehicles out in the middle of this lake.
They'll go out there and they'll park and they'll begin to dig holes and they'll begin to ice fish and really cool experience but I came across this story where a man came to a frozen lake and the only way to get to where he was going was to cross this lake.
He got out on his knees and he began to go to the edge and he tapped on the ice to make sure it was solid. He carefully scooted a little bit more on his hands and his knees and he began to tap a little more.
He found that it was still solid and he scooted out even further
even a few more feet and he began to tap again to make sure that it was strong enough to hold him.
Hours went by his face began to turn blue his knuckles began to turn red and he was almost to the other side when he heard a rumbling behind him. As he looked back he saw 12 Clydesdale horses pulling a heavy wagon.
They made it across the lake in just a few seconds. They were moving leaving the man
in a foolish state still on his knees still trying to figure out if he could make it across. And as I began to think through that story I often think of myself as a Christian saying Lord can I trust you today?
I'm going to take a step and I'm going to tap a little bit. I wonder if I'm going to make it today Lord. Lord we take another step and we tap again.
I wonder if the Lord even knows what kind of mess I'm in. We take another step and we begin to tap and we begin to tap and we say
who's going to get me out of this? We take another step and we tap again and we say God are you even going to be there? Are you working in my life? Are you going to keep working in my life? I know what he did back then.
God I know what you used to do in my life but are you still able to do it today? You see when all the while the Lord is standing there beside us as faithful as our shadow is and he's saying will you just trust me?
Don't worry about whether the ice is going to hold you because even if the ice doesn't hold you I'm holding your hand
and even if you fall in I'm going to be there holding you. Even if you get a little wet I'm going to be there I'm never going to let go of you.
I'm never going to let something bad happen to you that's not out of my control. He says I just need you to trust me. I just need you to take a step of faith and say God I'm going to trust you no matter what. You see it's hard for us to say that
and it's even harder for us to live it. As a pastor I've had to live that many many times in our life where we don't know what's going to happen our next day our next week and the encouragement of you guys we get the same encouragement as well but our ultimate faith and ultimate trust is in the Lord.
Didn't know how he was going to provide when we went from Arkansas to Idaho I really didn't know how he was going to provide when I went from Idaho to North Carolina and we sold everything we sold our
house we sold one of our vehicles and we just said God we're just going to trust you by stepping out by faith. I'm not saying for you to do something crazy or radical unless the Lord's telling you to
but I'm saying I've made these huge steps of faith and I've said God I'm going to trust you I'm going to trust that you're not going to allow my foot to slip that if it does slip you're there holding my hand and that I can trust in you.
So whatever your struggle is this morning as we look at this last psalm ask yourself is the Lord your keeper this morning? Lord we love you we thank you for what you've done.
I know I've been a little longer this morning Lord but I pray that it was for someone in this room. God help us to stay focused on you.
Closing Prayer and Reflection
God you're so good to us. Lord we fail you so often and yet you stay beside us and you say I'm here for you. Just turn around.
So God I pray that you'd help us this morning as we learn to trust in you more. We love you in your name we pray. Amen.
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