TUESDAY - 4TH OCTOBER, 2022
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
FROM WHENCE DOES YOUR HELP COME?
Read Psalm 121
Psalms 121:1-2, KJV
"1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth."
The Psalmist in a puzzling manner says, "he looks up to the mountains" but then contradicts it with, "does my help come from the mountains?" The mountain is literally big and up to the sky. You can call it the height. Metaphorically as the Psalmist intended, the mountains are those who have made their marks. They are cities set in their different places of colonization. These are men of substance. You can't but regard, esteem and believe them to be able to do something concerning your case when tendered to them. But unfortunately, the Psalmist had another confession to make. He says, "does my help come from the mountains?" One, he once looked there but was disappointed. Thus, being a man of experience, he could say and he eventually did say, "does my help come from the mountains?" But his saying that might not be because of a fresh disappointment or what he knows just recently but because he had learnt who man is and who he'll always be. So, he's saying, "does my help comes from the mountains?" That was a sincere ask! Yes, it is! He's affirming something to our faces and trying to redirect and establish in us where to really look for help. Being a man of experience, one who had leaned on flesh and had witnessed his first class failure, he's qualified to mentor us and take us under advisory on where and Who we should direct and focus our gazes, attention and expectation on. This man is qualify because he has known by contact or revelation. May I ask, "where have you been directing your gazes? To the hills or to the Lord?" You're making a mistake that you may regret if you do not soonest U-turn and be saved from the snare of trusting in men and institutions. Did you not see their description?
Isaiah 31:3, KJV
"Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together."
Man is mortal. He doesn't abide forever. He's weak and he has his own failings. He's not self contained and the strongest or conglomerate of them that the weak look up to could be taken away just suddenly by God (Lk 12:16,20). What then would become your hope? But thank God we were not left without a witness. The Psalmist shows us the secured room. He said, "my help comes from God Who made heaven and earth." What a mighty revelatory utterance! First, God dwells above any physical mountain and that includes the Everest that we know. As He's high above them all, so is he higher and greatly to be referenced and trusted in than any man. He and any aren't mates. Then, the Psalmist subtly let us into why we should indeed look up unto God. He showed us what He's capable of by showing us what He's reputed for or had done. He said, "He made heaven and earth." The earth He made is where man (the one you're mistakenly looking up unto for bread) lives in. May I ask you a question? Who's greater between the landlord and his tenant? If somebody gave habitat to the big men you're trusting in to live and take their being, who should we go to? He or they? On this note and not another, the mightiness of God is being unwrapped for our acknowledgement and we'll all be unreasonable creatures if we live the Creator to put faith and hope in His created. Today, God is correcting some of you who are waiting, hoping and are seriously on tip toes to stop stirring Him to jealousy and undermining His power by acknowledging mere mortals as givers of all hopes and meeters of all needs. God is still the One who shines His sun and gives His rain upon both the righteous and the unjust alike. It is from His hands all living feed and it's in Him they should trust. May you however not know what it means to look up to the hills but for redirection because your hope get dashed. However, how can any who trust in mortals not experience same?
PRAYER: I look up to you. My help comes from you Maker of heaven and the earth.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Jeremiah 1:1-2:30, Philippians 4:1-23, Psalm 75:1-10, Proverbs 24:17-20
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