“I lift my eyes to the mountains– where does help come from?
My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.”
When I was little, my family drove a Cadillac Seville. It had all the bells and whistles because my mother likes all the bells and whistles. Before key fobs and apps were a thing for every vehicle, you had to physically put the key in the door to lock it. I know, crazy right? Well, Cadillac vehicles had a remote lock mechanism that was ahead of its time.
One day, my dad played a trick on a kid at church one morning. He told the kid that he could control the car with his mind. The kid just laughed and said, “No way.” Well, my dad said, “In three seconds, the lights are going to flash, and the car will lock, all because I controlled the car using my mind.” Interested in seeing this, the boy said OK and watched. Sure enough, when my dad finished saying “three,” the doors locked and the lights flashed. The boy was amazed, and he ran to tell his friends. He did not know what all of us Dawson kids knew. He ran away, thinking that my dad had some mind control thing going on. We all laughed.
Like the Cadillac Seville having a self-locking mechanism that most people did not know about, the Lord is at work in our lives, and we often miss it. Just like the verse says, we look to the hills and wonder, where is my help coming from? Too many times, we are duped into believing it is a coincidence or just getting lucky. Our founding fathers wrestled with this also. George Washington, among others, had so many crazy near-death escapes that they came to the conclusion that providential involvement in building the dream of America was not to be ignored.
David, here, states a question we all ask and answers it in the following verse. Our help comes from the Lord and nowhere else. He is working in your life and all around you. Pray today that the Lord may show you His providential help. At some point, you will stop thinking of coincidence and start seeing the Lord at work. The question you ask after you realize the Lord is at work is, “What does the Lord have me here for?” We do not have mind control like my dad fooled the boy with, we rely on the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. Do not miss the Lord working in your life.
Prayer: Father, too often we rely on our own senses to gauge everything. If we cannot taste, feel, smell, or touch it, we tend not to believe it. I pray that we would grow our faith in You and the promises of Your Word instead of our own understanding. I pray Proverbs 3:5-6, that as we do not rely on our own understanding and acknowledge You in all our ways, You will direct our path, and we will notice it and praise Your name. In Jesus’ name, amen.
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