Psalms 121:1 In these first words of one of the greatest Psalms of David, the nobleness which we immediately feel seems to lie in this, that David will seek help only from the highest source. Nothing less than God's help can really meet his needs. He will not peer into the valleys, he will not turn... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 121:1 To the mind of the Jewish poet the everlasting hills of his native land were as shadows of the Infinite. The security which these mountain-ranges afforded to Palestine, forming as they did so remarkable a barrier to the land on every side except towards the sea, suggested to the writer... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 121 There is an affinity between souls and hills, especially for those who have become acquainted with their own solemn depths and sublime heights. In man's earthly estate wonderful heights are laid low. He has descended from the eternal hills. Being away from his home and half a stranger to... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 121:2 This expression of dependence upon God is not merely a formal act of piety, but the utterance of a truth which is seen to be more profoundly true for all of us the more we think of it. I. It is plain that in all man's great discoveries he only observes the energies of nature, which ar... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 121:3 There are times of every man's life, moods of every man's mind, in which nothing is more acceptable than the remembrance of some of those fundamental truths of religion from which we often turn aside as elementary or commonplace. Such a truth, so certain, so fundamental, so comforting,... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 121:8 I. It was help, and only help, which the speaker looked for from God. And help is not that which dispenses with exertion on our part, but rather that which supposes such exertion. Helping a man is not doing everything for him and leaving him nothing to do for himself, but rather the as... [ Continue Reading ]