Psalm 125:1-2 says,
“Those who trust in the Lord
Are like Mount Zion,
Which cannot be moved, but abides forever.
As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
So the Lord surrounds His people
From this time forth and forever.”
These promises make me rejoice. Those who trust in the Lord. That's me! It doesn't say those that are good people or who do good things. Those who trust in Him! It's not always easy. We're human; we get scared. It's also very tempting to think that we know best. Sometimes, I think that I can get through life on my own with my own knowledge and my own plans. But just looking through the Bible shows us how trustworthy our Lord is. And we simply cannot trust ourselves. Jeremiah 17:9 says, “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?” There is no good thing in us to trust. But when we trust in God, we become immovable. It's not from our strength or anything we can do. But because of God's strength; He gives those who trust Him stability. We cannot be moved. And when we trust in Him we have eternal life. This also means that when we don't trust in the Lord, we are going to fall. We will have no stability; no structure.
A second promise in this passage is that God surrounds us. He is our protection. Forever.
Romans 8:31, 33-35, 37-39
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?... Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?... In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
This doesn't mean that we will never hurt or go through trials or pain. In fact, those are guaranteed. But in the midst of those things, God will never leave us. And we can't be taken from His protection. When we trust in Him, there is not anything that can separate us from His love. Nothing. No one can be against us; no one can bring a charge against us; no one can condemn us. We are more than conquerors. You know you'd think that being a conqueror is enough, but in Christ, we are more than conquerors. What an awesome picture of who our God is. The strength He has. None of this has anything to do with us. This is all through His grace, His strength, His goodness. No one can come against Him and because we who trust in Him are His, no one can defeat us.
My application is make Psalm 125:1-2 a bookmark so that I see it continually and am reminded of who my God is and who I am in Him.
“Those who trust in the Lord
Are like Mount Zion,
Which cannot be moved, but abides forever.
As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
So the Lord surrounds His people
From this time forth and forever.”
These promises make me rejoice. Those who trust in the Lord. That's me! It doesn't say those that are good people or who do good things. Those who trust in Him! It's not always easy. We're human; we get scared. It's also very tempting to think that we know best. Sometimes, I think that I can get through life on my own with my own knowledge and my own plans. But just looking through the Bible shows us how trustworthy our Lord is. And we simply cannot trust ourselves. Jeremiah 17:9 says, “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?” There is no good thing in us to trust. But when we trust in God, we become immovable. It's not from our strength or anything we can do. But because of God's strength; He gives those who trust Him stability. We cannot be moved. And when we trust in Him we have eternal life. This also means that when we don't trust in the Lord, we are going to fall. We will have no stability; no structure.
A second promise in this passage is that God surrounds us. He is our protection. Forever.
Romans 8:31, 33-35, 37-39
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?... Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?... In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
This doesn't mean that we will never hurt or go through trials or pain. In fact, those are guaranteed. But in the midst of those things, God will never leave us. And we can't be taken from His protection. When we trust in Him, there is not anything that can separate us from His love. Nothing. No one can be against us; no one can bring a charge against us; no one can condemn us. We are more than conquerors. You know you'd think that being a conqueror is enough, but in Christ, we are more than conquerors. What an awesome picture of who our God is. The strength He has. None of this has anything to do with us. This is all through His grace, His strength, His goodness. No one can come against Him and because we who trust in Him are His, no one can defeat us.
My application is make Psalm 125:1-2 a bookmark so that I see it continually and am reminded of who my God is and who I am in Him.
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