“My help comes from the Lord” (Psalm 121:2)
The point of Psalm121 is not that we will not have problems, but that God will keep us safe as we go through them.
‘The Christian life is not a quiet escape to a garden where we can walk and talk uninterruptedly with our Lord; nor a fantasy trip to a heavenly city where we can compare blue ribbons and gold medals with others who have made it to the winners’ circle.
The Christian life is going to God. In going to God Christians travel the same ground everyone else walks on, breathe the same air, drink the same water, shop in the same streets, read the same newspapers, are citizens under the same governments, pay the same prices for groceries and petrol, fear the same dangers, are subject to the same pressures, get the same distresses, are buried in the same ground.
The difference is that each step we walk, each breath we breathe,
- we know we are preserved by God
- we know we are accompanied by God
- we know we are ruled by God
and therefore no matter what doubts we endure or what accidents we experience, the Lord will preserve us from evil, He will keep our life.’
– Eugene H. Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction