I’ve been fortunate to live most all of my life in and around mountains and hills. I grew up in the Ozark Mountains, my first job after college took me to the Flint Hills of Kansas, and now I wake up every day and look at the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

David lived among hills all of his life, encountered the Lord among them, and took comfort in their midst. I lift up my eyes to the mountains—where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. (Being from the Ozarks I’ll admit I’m partial to the King James rendering—I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills…)

But hills or mountains, the Lord dwells there. Or prairie or lowlands for that matter.

The solidity of the mountains moved David to write of the security found only under the stable hand of the Lord. He will not let your foot slip—he who watches over you will not slumber…the Lord will keep you from all harm—he will watch over your life.

The good news for us today? Those same mountains David gazed upon still stand, and the Lord still watches over me and you. Indeed, even if those hills fall down, the Lord will watch over my coming and going both now and forevermore.

Psalm 121 in reading the Bible cover to cover in 2022

Photo by Misael Moreno