Where Does My Help Come From

By

Kiwi S. Kalloo

Establishing people in the Heart of God in Kingdom Worship and Present Truth.

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• Amos 6:1 woe unto to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria.

     The mountains and hills though it rises in such a majestic splendor of scenery, out of the earth, lifting up her peaks to the clouds, becoming a haven to the eagles that flies high above. Even a wonder worth looking at by the Israelites, seems peaceful with such beautiful scenery. It spelled out a sense of security and safety to the Israelites, a place of refuge, a place where they can run to should the Assyrians come charging through the valley, they could take their families and flee into the mountains and hide there. After the enemies had gone they can return to the valley to rebuild their houses and replant their fields. The physical, literal hills became a place of refuge.

•      Jeremiah 3:23 truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains; truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.

     To the simple farmer, expecting the enemy to sneak in and spoil his harvest would send a lookout person who would find a comfortable spot which provided a vast but very revealing view. Seeing the dust kicking up in the distance he would sound the alarm and the farmers would retreat with their families into the mountains.

This retreat does not defeat the enemy but gives him free access with no one to stand in his way while he enters into the valley and rob the farmers.

     Retreating into the mountains of Samaria provides a physical place of refuge but with great loss. So when the psalmist says "I lift my eyes unto the hills where does my help come from, my help comes from God, maker of heaven and earth".

     This verse of Psalms 121 have a question, "I lift my eyes to the hills, does my help come from the hills? My help comes from God who is the maker of heaven and earth". God is bigger than the mountain, he created the mountain and the mountain is not the refuge but God is.

     The scripture says clearly that "my help comes from God". Crops do not grow on the mountain top, cities are not built on mountain tops, and farming does not take place on the mountains. As the snow melts on the mountain tops the water runs down to the valley, there is loam soil in the valley which is rich for growing crops and plenty of grass for the sheep, the mountain is rocky and unstable to build a house on and have little or no grass and it’s not vegetation friendly. Our help is not in the mountain, though it stands as a forth and a fortress it remains part of God's creation and our help is not in the creation but in the creator, the one who made the mountains.

     When we lift our eyes unto the mountains it should serve as a reminder that God is bigger than that.

Jesus said "if we say to the mountain be gone into the ocean, it shall be done, if we have faith" the mountains may be permanent in our eyes but temporary and dispensable in the eyes of God.

Our help is in God.