And for the help of the Lord,
I direct your prayerful attention to Psalm 121 and verse 2. My help cometh from the Lord,
which made heaven and earth. Psalm 121, verse 2. We read several
other psalms and each of them spoke of the
help of the Lord. And the statement here by the
psalmist is a very clear profession of faith. My help cometh from
the Lord, which made heaven and earth. The context in this psalm,
and we would be mindful in other psalms it covers different things,
The context here is the Lord's help in being our keeper and
being our preserver. And that is the context I want
to keep it in this afternoon. Very often through the Word of
God we have truths that you might say are very far-ranging truths. If you think of the subject before
us, the help of our Lord, we could cover many, many different
aspects, but in the Inspired Word, the Lord has seen fit to
focus our attention in just one aspect, often at a time. And for our poor minds, that
is what we need, to focus on one aspect of the truth of God. Onto, before coming to some main
points, just to notice a few things on this psalm. Many of
us, we look upon this psalm as a traveller's psalm. Certainly,
in our family, whenever we were going, especially on long journeys,
we would read this psalm together. And it is a good psalm. Of course,
it does not preclude tribulation and trials. It's good to be reminded
of, especially when we are leaving our homes, when we are traveling,
when we're in danger, my help cometh from the Lord, which made
heaven and earth. The second thing I notice is,
as in many of the Psalms, we must look for Christ. We must
see Him in the Psalms. And we see Him in this one. especially when we consider the
Lord as truly man. Often we overlook this. We think,
well, our Lord was made flesh and He dwelt among us. He was
really man and really God. But as really and truly man,
He needed to be helped from His Father. He needed the ministration
of angels. he needed to be kept. They tried
to cast him down from the hill of times. He said, my time is
not yet, your time is already. But right from his very birth,
they sought to destroy him and he was pursued, you might say,
in every way, told to go into Egypt, And you can see over that the
care and keeping of His Heavenly Father, Jehovah. And this is
the word that is in our text. And it's a good thing for us
then to, when you come to a Psalm like this, our Lord was truly
man and He needed keeping in that as much as what we do. It's very easy for us to minimize
the sufferings of our Lord to minimize the things that he endured
and went through in this life, I just say, well, you must go
on as well. And we take away everything.
But great help can be for us. Remember in Hebrews, he is a
sympathizing high priest over the house of God. He knoweth
our frame, he remembereth that we are the dust, and how much
that what our trials are is our fears, our need of being cared
bodily and spiritually. And so when we come to a sign
like this, though we look for it for help for ourselves, may
it give us a little window as well into the path of our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ. Verse three, you will not suffer
thy foot to be moved, neither keepeth thee will not slumber.
The other aspect with our Lord Jesus Christ in this psalm, some
have thought with the first verse it seems to be a bit contrary
to the verse of our text. How can it be that my help comes
from the hills when the next verse is my help cometh from
the Lord? Some will render it as a way
of a question. Shall my help come from the hills? No, my help comes from the Lord. Well, it's very clear that help
does not come from hills, it comes from the Lord. But remember
this, around Galilee, there's four hills, or four mountains. And in the Lord Jesus Christ,
you read this in three of the gospels, especially when he had
sent away the people, Then he went up into the mountain alone
to pray. And he spent whole nights in
prayer. Think of his son, who's speaking
of the sun not spiking by day, nor the moon by night. You think
of the mountains. Here are the mountains where
the Lord is going up, and that is where he is having that fellowship
and communion with his Father, and drawing that help from his
Heavenly Father. His hell comes from the Lord,
but in that place where he sought it was a place of prayer and
on these mountains. So in that way, when you view
the psalm as pointing to Christ, then it falls in how it is inspired
here, because you see our Lord going up the mountain and having
a time with his Father and receiving the help from Him. really notice here is how personal
this is. My help coming from the Lord. This is a personal testimony. And we each need to have a personal
faith, a personal testimony, and be held personally. And those
of you that up to this present time you've just heard the word
and thought well this is for others and this will be a help
to others, But think of your own soul, the need of your own
soul. A personal religion, personal
faith, personal help from the Lord is absolutely vital. Another thing to notice when
we're thinking of the help of the Lord, do not pass over this
as a token from the Lord. Sometimes we can listened to
the devil, he said, oh, you've asked for help in this, it would
have happened anyway. And he tries to blacken or take
away the benefit or blessing that we've had. It's often good
to, when the Lord has answered our prayers, to, in our mind,
take a step back to how it was before. So if we've lost something,
And we really made it a matter of prayer that we might find
it. And then we find it. And we find it in a place where
we should know where that was. We've got it now. And you think,
is that a blessing? Is that an answer to prayer?
Well, put yourself back. Imagine if it's still lost. Imagine
if it was never to be found again. You weren't going to see that
thing again. And the trial and the trouble you've been in then,
you think, now I'm not in it. Because the Lord has answered
my prayer and that thing is found. Just don't pass over a help,
however small, as not being a token from the Lord, an answer to prayer,
and that which in the word of God is put a great store to. that enables us to bring this
verse and this testimony by help cometh from the Lord which made
heaven and earth. If all the time we're saying,
well no, that would have just happened anyway, that's not coming
from the Lord. We're taking away those very
things that the Lord has done for us. I want to look at four main points
this afternoon Firstly, the source of hell. Now it says, my hell
cometh from the Lord which made heaven and earth. And the source
of the hell is clearly identified. Secondly, the foundation of hell. How can it be that God would
help a poor sinner? What is the basis? What is the
foundation for it? If it was a parent helping a
child, you would say, well I know what the foundation is, it's
the love of the parent. Why they would help that child
in a way that they would not expend their time, energy, or
money to someone that wasn't. So there is a foundation of that
help. And then thirdly, the means of
help. And in that particularly, I like
to think of the prayer. Prayer of our Lord, and the nights
he spent in prayer. that that is the means the Lord
uses. And then lastly, the help that
is given that is described in this psalm. There are several
verses that follow that describe the help in particular things. But firstly, the source of help. Where does that help come from? My help comes from the Lord,
that is, Jehovah. but who is Jehovah, who is the
Lord, is set forth here as which may heaven and earth. Now there's
several things in this as to noticing the source of the help. Firstly, it clearly identifies
the true and living God. The Apostle Paul at Athens, when
he is confronted with a multitude of alters to all sorts of gods,
and he will declare to them who is the true and living God, who
is the unknown God to them, he begins with the creation. The
God that made heaven and earth. In Him we live and move and have
our being. That is how he introduces it. the worldview that we must have
of the God that is the God that made this world and sustains
it. Missionaries to nations where
they have all these other gods, they say that if they were to
come and present to them the Lord Jesus Christ as truly God
and salvation through Him, all that they would do was to tack
him on to their other gods. How's it okay to have others
and just add Jesus as another one? But if they come and they
begin with in the beginning God, a God who might the whole world,
that is something that none of their gods did. And it's starting
then to view everything that happens in the world through
the Word of God and through this one true and living God. And that's why the Apostle in
Acts 17, also in Acts 4, other places where he would speak to
those who do not know God, he introduces the true and living
God as the Creator God. And it's vital that we begin
there. You know it's no wonder that our schools, our land, attacks
the idea of teaching to children creation. Because that is the
one thing in Romans that we are told in the judgment we shall
be without excuse because God is known by the things that he
has made. Our God is the invisible God. You cannot see him, you cannot
be seen, you cannot be perceived in any way. It is manifest in
the Lord Jesus Christ, but it's also manifest in all His creation,
all that we see. I often use this illustration,
you cannot see electricity. There's electricity in this building,
but if you didn't see the evidence of it with the fans going, or
with the amplifier working, or the organ playing, You wouldn't
know it. You couldn't see that electricity
except it is evidence, except something is done. So God is
known by the judgement of the executor and by what he has made
and done. And so the psalmist here is pointing
to the God that made the heavens and the earth. We read in Jeremiah
that the gods that have not made the heavens and the earth let
them perish from under the heavens. There is only one true and living
God. The other reason why the source
is set before us like this, we are looking for help. This is
a profession of help. And what better one to go to
or to look for help than one who is so powerful and mighty
that has made the heavens and the earth and all things that
are in them. So in describing the source of
hell, he's giving great encouragement of receiving hell. Is anything
too hard for the Lord? You think of Abraham. When God
gave promise to him that his seed, that they should inherit
that land, and it should be as the stars of heaven for multitude,
as the sand upon the seashore, and he bade him to look, look
up to the heavens, see them. This was what the Lord was able
to do. And of course that was triumph,
wasn't it? 25 years or so before the Congress
seat comes. Is anything too hard for the
Lord? Nothing is impossible with God,
and yet where the Lord gives that help, often times He does
at first make us through that in us there is no help. Remember that. If you and I have
to receive help from the Lord, at times it will be delayed to
prove that the help is not in us. Do you know when Goliath
was challenging Israel, challenging them to find one to go and fight
against him? For forty days there was none.
40 days it was evident there was not one in Israel that was
able to fight the lion. And then God caused Jesse to
send David to see how his brethren were getting on. And David comes,
he says, is there not a cause? There was a cause. There was
a cause that Jesse did not send his son at first, but later,
There was a cause why there should be that delay and why he should
come not just to see how his brethren did or to bring the
victuals, but that he was the one chosen to go out against
Lyon. Now do remember that. The Lord
will make it clear that the source of the hill is from him by making
us know first that he's not from us. And sometimes that can be
very painful. It might be the way the Lord
answers our prayers. The Lord showed them that that
help is for them. So the Lord gives us a time.
When we have no help, and we try and try and do things of
our own and we cannot, then the Lord helps. Remember, the source, the Lord
will make it clear to his people where that help comes from. And our text is clear. My help
cometh from the Lord which made heaven and earth. How many of
our trials, how many of the helps that we've had, are we able to
clearly identify the source? Means might have been used Remember the Apostle Paul, he
says, God, you comforted those that are cast out. Now that's
help, isn't it? To have comfort from being cast
out. He said, comforted us by the
coming of Titus. You say, Paul, you really see
the coming of Titus as to be a help and comfort from the Lord?
Yes, says Paul, I do. But don't overlook when God uses
others, uses things we might say natural things, because in
the word of God it's clearly identified they are given by
the Lord. Remember Naaman, when he wanted
to be healed of his leprosy, was offended because the remedy
was such a simple thing as to go and wash him seven times each
morning. Don't be like that. You say,
I want help from the Lord, so I want a very dramatic thing.
I want something that I can really tell as a real wonderful testimony,
not just something simple and ordinary that the Lord did in
answer to my prayers. It is by faith that we view the
help coming that way. May we remember this as well.
The Lord says, who is he that saith, and he cometh to pass
when the Lord commandeth it not. Not even Titus could go and see
Paul if the Lord commanded it not. These things are in the
Lord's hand. All our providences, all the
changes, the changes you had today, with those unable to gather. The Lord's servant that would
have been here this morning, unwell? Now did Ethan's wife
unwell? Are he not there? Those that
those ordered, they're not by chance. The Lord is appointing
them. The ministry you had this morning
for your former pastor, why that had to be brought, that's all
ordered by the Lord. If you're held by that, who is a preaching and brought
the word, and blessed the word. And so you should notice where
the helps are, all the steps that come in that help given. All the providences, all the
things that have happened. Some of us can remember going
to special services expecting to see a particular minister
there, and it wasn't him, it was someone else. And the Lord
has blessed that ministry to us. And we've seen not only the
blessing of the ministry, but the blessing in that one servant
was laid aside and another brought to bring that message, and that
message was not only the same by another of the Lord's servants. So it's a double blessing. It
is an observed providence to watch His hand and to trace the
source up to God. We can be sure when the Lord
does it for His people as well, Where it comes from him, it leads
back to him in his people. You think of the lepers, the
10 lepers that were seeking the Lord for healing. When one saw
that he was healed, he turned back to the Lord, glorified God,
gave thanks. He went back to the source. And
that is what we are gonna give honor and glory to God. It's
not only identifying the source, but it's going back to that source
and giving glory. So it's not just taking the gifts
and not recognizing the giver. How would we feel if we were
giving presents to family members for birthdays or something like
that, and they took the gifts but completely ignored the giver? They were pleased with what they
got, but they didn't want to be in the company of and didn't
want to recognise the giver. The way the Lord deals with his
people is that his gifts, his helps, lead his people back to
heaven. You think of dear Hannah, for
this child I prayed the Lord hath given me my petition. And
that wonderful, beautiful prayer in 1 Samuel chapter 2 of Hannah,
speaking of the help the Lord had given her. So the first one
then is the source of help. The second point is the foundation
of help. Why should it be, and I know
we put it away, inserted into the text, that we have this help
for sinners. If we look at it with our Lord
Jesus Christ, why should He be helped? Why should His Father
help Him? God laid help upon one that is
mighty. The Lord Jesus Christ is our
helper. Why should the Father help him?
Bound up with the help that was given our Lord was all of his
dear people. If he did not stand after his
tenth of those forty days of the wilderness, the devil passed
upon him for a season, but angels came and ministered to him, and
he had that constant help as we said, And so the foundation
of help, we must look for God's eternal purposes, His grace,
His mercy, His love. Yea, I have loved thee with an
everlasting love, and therefore with loving kindness have I drawn
thee. Now help is coming because of
an everlasting love. is gone to the king's table and
to sit with David at the king's table. He's laying with both
of his feet. Why has he got that helm? Because
of a covenant made between David and Saul, David and Jonathan. That's why. And it is in that
way, David himself, he says, Although my house be not so with
God, yet hath he made with me a everlasting covenant, ordered
in all things and sure, This is all my salvation, all my desire,
though He make it not to grow. He's tracing back to that covenant,
back to the chosen in Him before the foundation of the world.
The Lamb's Book of Life written before the foundation of the
world. He's going back to the reason why, and sometimes that
can be If we don't go back to the reason, there's a stumbling
block. Why should the Lord help me? The hymn writer does take
it up. Why me? Why was I made to hear
his voice? Hence a while we grew, while
many in faith erected choice, rather starved than calm. If
the answer was rather something good, he'd be, I'm brought up
under the sound of the truth, I'm not such a bad sinner after
all. That gives no glory to God. that
when we really realise our sinnership, realise our helplessness, the
Lord said, without me you can do nothing, from me is thy fruit
found. When we realise that, then we
realise there must be some other foundation, there must be some
other reason why it is that God has helped us. And sometimes
we might have a contrast, we used to help one, but not help
another. He's shown favour to one, but
not another. He can have the Red Sea Passage,
and you see the children of Israel with the Red Sea Passage, and
they go through, and they are preserved, they get through the
other side, but the Egyptians, they go through, and their very
same passage becomes a death to them. Why is that? What is the difference? Was Israel
someone better than the Egyptians? No, God said many times, that
they were more, that they were blessed, not because they were
more than any people, or that they were better than any people,
and they could see the rebellions through the wilderness, that
they were, and you and I are just the same. We've got a rebellious
nature, we're sinful, we're born out of sin, and out of trouble,
the sparks fly upwards. And the Lord knows that, and
the account of Israel is very good, very encouraging for us,
because how often the Lord blessed them, and then they still turned
away from Him. Even Hezekiah, blessed with lengthening
of days, and yet he rendered not according to the benefit,
and he with pride showed all of his kingdom to the messengers
from Babylon. And so, you find that we've got
to look somewhere else for that foundation, out of ourselves. And the other important thing
with that as well, is not only when we're looking for help,
to have it as mercy, and as graciously given, and from the love of God,
but when that help is given, then we're able to trace for
the poor soul that has not been able to say, that the Lord is
their God, or that he loves them, or that he has had a favour towards
them, is now faced with a help being received, the foundation
of which is, the source comes from God, and the foundation
is not in them, but in the covenant, and but in the loving kindness
of God, that is a beautiful token. Joined with that one help, It
leads to the Lord and shows that person who they are, whom they
serve, and who takes knowledge of them, and who keeps them,
and who has a favour towards them. And so it is important
for us to look to that foundation. We could add more points of course,
we think of justice, because where the Lord has suffered for
his people, where he's endured the wrath of God for them, where
he's purchased life for them, it is that that should be given
them. And the Lord is in heaven, appearing
in the presence of God for us, making intercession for us. The
Holy Spirit, I will pray the Father, He will give you another's
comforter which shall abide in you forever. The Holy Spirit
given is the help, the vital help, for the church of God,
without which our preaching is vain. The apostles had to tarry
at the city of Jerusalem until they were in Judea, the powerful
one, high. Without that, they could not.
And that came as a direct intercession and sending from heaven to them. So may we be mindful of the source
of our help and mindful of the foundation of why it is given
to us. On to look then, thirdly, at
the means of help, and predominantly prayer. I will for this be inquired
of, we read in Ezekiel 36, by the house of Israel to do it
for them. It is not a sign of unbelief
to be praying for things that God has promised to do or to
give. what is ordained that we should.
The promises should encourage us to ask, encourage us to pray. They are not that we distrust
or don't believe that God can do them, and therefore we've
got to keep reminding Him and prompting Him and asking Him. No, the Lord has greatly encouraged
that we should be importunate in prayer and that we should
go again and again. You think of Elijah on Mount
Carmel, the Lord had promised he would send rain, he sent fire
at one point, prayer, the Lord sent fire from heaven, at the
end of the rain it must go again seven times. And yet, Elijah
believed it would, but when? He is watching, and looking,
and expecting. And we are to walk in that path
with prayer as well. not elaborate prayers, not long
prayers even, but simple prayers. Again you have an illustration
of Abraham's servant going to get a wife for Isaac and he does
as he is bidden, he goes to his father's house and he comes to
the well and he makes his prayer and the first part of the prayer
He just tells God where he is, what his mission is, and that
the women are coming out to that well, and then he asks that if
he was to ask the woman that came out that she will give him
water, and she then says that I give for the camels also, then
let that one be the woman. So he doesn't put very strange,
unrelated conditions. He asked for real practical evidence
that the woman was a godly woman that was thinking not just during
the one mile, but going the second mile, thinking where he wanted
water, his camels would want water too, and evidence in that
way. It was a very, very simple request. but he had hardly done speaking
and Rebekah came out and came to pass. When he relates the
matter to Bethuel and Laban, then her father and her brother,
they say, the thing proceeded from the Lord. They clearly saw
it was from the Lord, an answer to Abraham's servant's prayer. Now how many prayers have we
made that have maybe had answers that have been clear like that,
but haven't recognised it, and we haven't said as clearly as
then the thing proceeded from the Lord? It is through prayer. And remember, the whole way of
salvation is to bring a people to the Lord. Unite that which
has been split by thee, by the full to reconcile that which
was alienated, to bring nigh, and specifically in prayer. That
is what the Lord does, brings his people to pray, brings his
people to him, to have communion and fellowship with him, and
that those things that do it are things we need helping, and
therefore come to the Lord. Let us look last at the help
that he's given, especially looking at the helps in this Son. As we said in the beginning,
it is predominantly held in keeping and preserving. Thou wilt keep him in perfect
peace, his mind is stayed on thee, because he trusts in thee. Peter says also that the people
of God are they that are kept by the power of God through faith
and through salvation ready to be revealed in the last day. God's people are a kept people. And in verse three we have this,
he will not suffer thy foot to be moved. Not suffer thy foot
to be moved. Our steps, Psalm 37, the steps
of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he delighted in
his work. In Romans 8, the very first verse,
there is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus,
who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. When Peter,
the Lord was going to wash his feet, he said, no, not washing
my feet. The Lord said, if I wash thee
not, thou hast no part with me. Then He wants everything washed.
No, says the Lord, just your feet. That's all you need. And really, where the Lord works
in the heart, it affects the feet. It will affect what we
do, how we act. He will keep the feet of His
saints. Being kept in this world, it
is how we walk. It's not just talk, it's walk,
it's profession. And sometimes the greater profession
is that which is actually seen and walked out, walked out before
the ungodly, walked out by the unbelieving in their assholes.
And especially those who have been watching to see our falling
all the time. It is out of the heart. The heart is the source and out
of the heart comes what is spoken, and what is actually walked and
done. And so the keeper of the feet,
when our Lord does that, He will deal with the heart, and He will
direct our steps and cause us to walk in the way that is pleasing
in His sight. Wherewithal shall a young man
cleanse his way by taking heed thereto, and to thy word is a
lamp, and to my feet a light, and to my path I'll get up my
guns, get my footsteps, thank God. And all the time the Word
is giving the message to the Lord when He works in the heart,
brings a change of life, a change of direction, a change in that
person. And many are feared when they
have been called, well, what if at some moment I slip up? What if I'm caught up? What if
I am led astray? Well, it is a beautiful promise. He will not suffer thy foot to
be moved. The Lord keeps our feet. Then
we have that the Lord does not sleep. He that keepeth thee will
not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel
shall neither slumber nor sleep. You think in a natural way with
us in our night time, how can we keep our own bodies if we're
asleep? And so what is pictured here,
while we are asleep, the Lord is watching over and keeping
us. We think of how Elijah mocked
the worshippers of Baal, when Baal was not answering them,
he said, maybe he's asleep, or he's on a journey. But the Lord
does not. He hears as much in the night
as in the day, and in this very Word as well, there's a difference
between us and Him. And how often perhaps we cry
and we may get tired and think, well, our means of feeding ourselves
is not so good, but with our Lord, He is able to keep, He
doesn't sleep, doesn't slumber. Then we have in verse 5, The
Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee
by day, nor the moon by night. Day and night. Remember the children
of Israel went through the wilderness, they had the fiery cloudy pillar
that was powered by day, fired by night, so that they would
go by night and by day. If you've ever been in, of course
we have had hot weather recently, but specifically over in Australia
it would be very, very hot to be outside with no shelter, to
have 41 degrees heat as I've worked for several days at a
time, and you need to look for shelter. We read in the word
of the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. And none can
know what a welcome shade is that shadow of a great rock,
or trees or whatever it is, unless you've known that peak. The people
of God, they know it not only literally like that which David,
the psalmist would have known in the deserts, but they know
it from their enemies and adversaries as well, the temptations, and
the things that would come upon them like pigs. These are things
that in the New Jerusalem, in heaven, there shall not be extremes
like that. There shall not be heat, there
shall not be cold, but here below there is. And so the keeping
is in that situation as well. Then we read in verse seven,
the Lord shall preserve thee from all evil. because sometimes
it's the evil in the city that the Lord hath not done. We call
things evil that the Lord may bring as famines, sickness, tribulation,
but that is not what we're here. This is what is here, is sinful
evil, wicked evil. But the Lord will keep his people
from that. The Lord will preserve thee from
all evil. Those are the Lord's people who
are on the battleground. Around them is the world, within
them is our nature, they have Satan as a roaring lion, or as
an angel of light. So many ways are set before us
in the Word of God, the need of the Lord keeping us. He doesn't
set us forth, call us by grace, and then says, now it's up to
you. You keep your own soul. You watch
over your own spirit. You deliver yourself from these
things. But again, going back to prayer,
how many times we may feel our weakness and have to cry unto
the Lord that He will keep us and He will preserve us. So it
is a keeping from sin, and even in that way, not tribulation. The Lord has appointed our tribulations. The soul, clearly mentioned,
verse 7. He shall preserve thy soul. Our
Lord Jesus Christ had a soul, a real soul, made of the seed
of Abraham. He shall see if it is revealed
of his soul, and shall be satisfied. But with the people of God, the
Lord warns, He said, Fear not them which kill the body, and
after that there is nothing more they can do. But fear Him that
after you have killed, have power to cast into hell both body and
soul, saying, I save you, fear Him. And our soul is worth so
much more than our bodies. You think of the martyrs who
would rather lay down their lives than deny the Lord, rather than
cast away their faith. Value your soul more than your
body. It's only in that way we'll crucify
the flesh. Only in that way we'll take up
our cross and follow the Lord. Only in that way will we escape
those errors that are said in the world. Demas hath forsaken
me, having loved this present world. Gone back and went no
more with the people of God. At the end of this psalm, the
Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in, from this
time forth and even forevermore. The many changes, many places
that we go to in our lives constantly, it's a beautiful promise to have.
When we leave our homes, when we come back into our homes,
in many situations, to have this promise of the Lord, but the
end part is very precious. Now one time we shall leave our
home, and we will never return to it, but it's a blessing to
have an eternal home. It says here, even for evermore. Remember I asked the pilgrim
in Pilgrim Home years ago, first time I saw him, Was he in there
for convalescent or in there permanently? He said permanently.
And then his face broke into this wonderful smile, and he
looked up and he said, but my home is in heaven. He said, this
is not permanent. He says, that is where I look
for. And three months later, the Lord took him home. And I
never forgot that, Lord, that wonderful change, that dawning
on him, he had the eternal home. If we go in and out of our homes
here, but one may be one. But can we say, with the Son,
as my help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth,
that when I leave my home for the last time, I'll have a heavenly
home, eternal home, not trace of blessings I had here. Grace,
he shall give grace and glory. No good things shall he withhold
from them that walk uprightly. To see the helps you've had here
below, He that has held me hitherto, will help me all my journey through. Daily give me cool cherrones,
fresh ebenezers to his praise. The Lord act as they say.