FAITHFUL WORDS - When the pressures of life and the hardships of meeting  your daily needs collide, where do I/We turn to find answers and peace?  The comfort from Psalm 121 is a subtle yet meaningful text that brings  hope and courage:   "I lift up my eyes to the hills.  From where does my help come?/ My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth." 

Tucked away in these 8 verses are 6 references to words of strength: "keep" and  "keeper."  The Song of Ascent is the pilgrims song as they traversed the rugged hills to Jerusalem for the Feasts.  These words not only encouraged the weary travelers but express the truth that the LORD is the ONE who brings them through the dangers, the needs, and the peace as they demonstrate that they will keep the covenant by  obeying  their tri-annual offerings to the Holy Temple.

The first verses are our looking to God for His help (which glorifies Him) and the thought of Him watching over us by KEEPING His grace ever present assures we, the needy, that the Creator of all, is also our help.  FAITHFUL WORDS -- keep in your heart, recite then with joy from your lips, and be ever conscience that He is our Creator.