Where Does Our Help Come? - Psalms 120-121

 Psalms 121:2 (ESV)

My help comes from the LORD,

who made heaven and earth.

The above response is from the question posed in the first verse of this song.  The writer asks, “Where does my help come from?”   The rest of the poem answers that question.  We are not told the exact context of the writer’s dilemma, but apparently he is in a tight spot.   He is looking for help and refuge.    Recently there was a hurricane in Florida.  Our boat and car were there. The boat survived, the car didn’t.  Prior to the hurricane hitting shore, our prayers were over all the people and the property ... especially our beloved WayMaker.   I don’t recall praying once for the car.   So, it was declared total.  My first call was to the insurance company.   I now sit and wonder if I had included the car in the prayer to save the boat, WayMaker, what would have happened?   Both were insured.  But, in truth, my help does not come from an insurance company.   They can help in the aftermath, but it is from the LORD we receive true, powerful, long lasting and unmitigated help.  We ought to remember that when we need help, real help, nothing mankind has created, maintain or invented can substitute the help that comes from God, who just happened to make haven and earth.  The writer almost causally writes those words.  He tells us that his help comes from the LORD and, then, to qualify it, he adds who made heaven and earth.  In his day, as in ours, there were many other gods people worshipped.  They were more outward with their fake gods than today, but never-the-less both then and now there are many false and weak and lame gods that people worship.  Some of those gods are possessions (like boats and vacation homes in Florida).   Others make gods of their children or their jobs or their riches.   But, we serve a God, THE God, who made heaven and earth.   That is where our help comes from.   Note the writer Hebrews words:

Hebrews 1:2-3 (ESV)

but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

That writer opens the great book of Hebrews up with the declaration that God, through His Son, not only made the world, He upholds it with the power of His marvelous Words.   That is the God who gives us help.