“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth” (Psalm 121:1-2).

My grandmother came from the Altoona, Pennsylvania area. She and her family moved to the Western New York area when she was a youngster. Of the many things I remember about my grandmother, her love for the Lord surely stands out as the greatest memory. But the other memory I have of her is her love for the mountains. I remember listening to my grandmother commenting on how flat everything was in our part of the state. She had a picture hung on the wall in her music room that, according to her, looked much like the mountains from which her family moved. I think of my grandmother often and share her love of the mountains. There could be times when winter weather made tricky traveling on those mountainside roads in the Binghamton New York area where I would serve as a pastor. However, most times the mountains reminded me of the rich blessing of belonging to God. The psalmist surely had many mountains that were part of his daily life. When times grew difficult, he would lift up his eyes and look beyond the mountains to the God Who made them as well as the God Who would sustain him. Even if you do not have a mountain nearby, you still have the Lord Who is the source of your help.

For today: With or without the mountains, I am so glad for the Lord’s help. How about you?