Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“I lift up my eyes to the hills— from where will my help come?
My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.”
NL Daily Devotion for Friday, June 25, 2021
by R. M. Fergus, Clergy Stuff
I saw the Rocky Mountains for the first time just a couple years ago. We’d been driving in a straight line forever across what seemed like completely flat land. Then all of a sudden, in the hazy distance, I could make out the jagged outline of dramatic mountains soaring into the pale sky. My stomach flipped, and I was filled with excitement and anticipation. It seemed like such a bizarre response to a bunch of rocks.
I get why the ancients worshipped God (and gods) on mountains and in “ the high places.” I actually did feel closer to God with those incredible hills all around me. And while I live in Minnesota (we don’t really do mountains) that experience in Colorado still comes to mind when I think of this well-known psalm. I know my help—that is, God—doesn’t literally come from higher elevations, but I also know that when I feel connected to God, when I cry out to God and God answers me, I have that same awe-filled wonder that I had on that summer day a couple of years ago when the Rockies appeared from the haze.
Have I experienced a “mountaintop moment” with God?
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