A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?A Song of Ascents. I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?A Song of degrees. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.A Song of Ascents. I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: From whence shall my help come?
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… Same word. Psalm chapter 121, verse one and two. I lifted my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth. One more, Isaiah 41, verse 13. For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand. It is I who say to you, fear not. I am the one who helps you. This word describes God himself, which means there's no hint of inferiority here. If anything, that would be a hint of superiority. But we know that's not true. Let me give you three descriptors of how God designed this relationship between man and woman in marriage for good from the very beginning. So first, God designed marriage to be a relationship marked by equal dignity. Both man and woman made in the image of God with equal glorious dignity. With no hint of superiority or inferiority. As one biblical scholar wrote, man's helper would be no weak sister by any stretch of a misogynist's imagination. …
… physically crying to God in the words of Psalm 121. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, who's the maker of heaven and earth. We were, are just praying and pleading, God, we need your help. And we know beyond the shadow of a doubt that God will be faithful to answer. God's plan for our lives comes with the guarantee of God's grace in our lives. And one side note here as we think about God's grace, just think about this with me. Jeremiah 29 is a powerful picture of God's good plans for his people when they are suffering, follow this as a result of their sin. when God's people were what they were experiencing in Jeremiah wasn't Job like suffering like when Job suffered in the Bible lost his possessions his children his health his wife is telling him to curse God and the Bible goes out of the way to make sure we know Job did nothing specific to deserve this the story in Jeremiah's day is the opposite the men and women in Jeremiah's day had sinned against God all kinds of idolatry and immorality that's why they were suffering But even still, even though they had been completely unfaithful to God, God was still faithful to them. …
… understand number one, there can be no valley without mountains. up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help. Are you down in the valley? Then look at the mountains, my dear friend. Look, look, I say, to Mount Calvary, and look to Mount Zion. Second thing, second thing, there can be no shadow without a light. Notice what it says, yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. Now death is just a shadow if you know the Lord Jesus Christ because Jesus has become the death of death. You see, Jesus pulled the sting out of death. Jesus took the gloom out of the grave. Jesus took the dread out of dying. And Jesus has given us a hope that is steadfast and sure. A shadow may frighten you, but a shadow cannot hurt you. Jesus has taken the sting out of sin, the dread out of the grave. Jesus has become our victor. And there cannot be a shadow without a light. …