I will lift up my eyes unto the hills

I will lift up my eyes unto the hills

" I will lift up my eyes unto the hills , from whence comes my help!" Psalm 121:1

Not to the hills literally, but to Him who made the hills—for the psalmist immediately adds, "My help comes from the Lord, who made Heaven and earth."

"The everlasting hills" are a fit emblem of the power and unchangeableness of Jehovah. "The strength of the hills is His also." "As the mountains are round about Jerusalem—so the Lord is round about His people, henceforth, even forever."

As we stand at the foot of a lofty range of mountains, and trace their summits until they pierce the skies, and remember they have continued the same amidst all the revolutions of earth, the rise and fall of empires, and the birth and death of many generations—they help our thoughts to rise to some apprehension of the power and immutability of Him who formed them.

Let us realize that the power that raised the lofty mountains is our defense, and that love as unchanging as the everlasting hills is our portion—and we shall be satisfied.

"To Heaven I lift my waiting eyes,
  There all my hopes are laid;
  The Lord, who built the earth and skies,
  Is my perpetual aid!"

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