Today’s passage: Psalm 123
Helpful thoughts:
- God is on the throne “in the heavens.” There is no one higher, no one above Him. To look for help elsewhere is folly.
- When God is our Lord/Master, we have the greatest and highest Lord!
- The mercy being asked for is relief from the contempt and the scorn God’s people endure from those who do not follow Him.
Questions to consider:
- Why is it sometimes easier to look to a person over us and put our hope in people over the Lord? How does thinking on truth and faith keep our hope rooted in God?
- How do we “lift our eyes” to God in our time of need? How do we wait once we have “lifted our eyes?” What does that look like in our lives today?
- When we acknowledge God as our Lord, what does that also require we do with our expectation of results? Who is the one who gets to decide how things will turn out? What can we know is always true about what God decides (Romans 8:28-30)?