“Long Obedience in the Same Direction”
Devotional Day 5
- The One Who Watches Over You –
Based on Chapter 3 – “Providence”
Psalm 121
A song of ascents.
1I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
where does my help come from?
2My help comes from the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
3He will not let your foot slip—
he who watches over you will not slumber;
4indeed, he who watches over Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
5The Lord watches
over you—
the Lord is
your shade at your right hand;
6the sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.
7The Lord will
keep you from all harm—
he will watch over your life;
8the Lord will
watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore.

I admit I struggle with this, but I want to reflect on my
recent father son fishing trip. It
begins with Hope the hope represented by the rainbow that showed up as we
exited the interstate to our hotel. That
God will not destroy us regardless of our sinful state. Not only will he not destroy us, but the
creation will continue to serve us. But my hope is not in mountains or in
rainbows my hope is in the Lord.

Where was God? Was he
not aware of our prayers? Did he not know of our heartfelt desires? We had traveled hundreds of miles spent
valuable money to catch a Sail Fish. Life doesn’t always provide happiness but we
have a choice to be present, to seek the Lord, and to choose to glorify Him for
the beauty of his Creation certainly but even then the brokenness of the creations
bring us harm also. We have to learn
that the joy of our journey is not happiness, which is fleeting, it isn’t
beauty which can turn to storms.
Joy is
that there is one who “Watches Over You” He watches over your life!
We did not catch the fish we wanted. Life is much more serious than a fishing
trip, but that statement is a metaphor for life. Yet – if we turn our attention away from the
pursuit of happiness and to the pursuit of God’s glory then brothers and
sisters we experience the joy of being watched over by one who never slumbers,
never sleeps – whose Joy in you is eternal.
The search for meaning is not in happiness but in Glory.
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