Psalm 121:1-8
A song of ascents.
1 I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
where does my help come from?
2 My help comes from the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
3 He will not let your foot slip—
he who watches over you will not slumber;
4 indeed, he who watches over Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord watches over you—
the Lord is your shade at your right hand;
6 the sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.
7 The Lord will keep you from all harm—
he will watch over your life;
8 the Lord will watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore.
The non-believer and atheist sees the world differently than this Psalmist...The non-believer sees the world without God...They see a world of science, of logic, and reason -and somehow miss seeing God in these things...They have lost Him through their beliefs or maybe better to say, their non-belief...A world without God, is one that has no one watching over us...It is a world of man, and the power of man...To the non-believer it is truly a man's world and he can and may do anything he wants without consequence, because God is not there for him and He has gone...God has left the non-believer and He is gone from their world...The non-believer has left God (God has not left him)...By ignoring Him, and not following Him, we lose Him in our life...And this causes our lives to be lived differently (than it might have been had we followed Him)...
God gives us direction and meaning...The world is broken, but God is looking out for us...The hope of the non-believer lies in the hope of man, and the advancement of man...The hope of this type of world lies in the trust of each and every man...Without God, aren't each of us are in charge, in power, free to do what and anything we want or wish?...Without God and Jesus and the Bible who decides?...
The Psalmist tells us about a life with God...The Psalmist is telling us about how believers in God think...The Psalmist tells us that God watches over us...He protects us...The LORD is our shade at our right hand when the sun is hot in the day...And He watches over us both in the day and in the night...He will keep us from all harm and watch over our life...The Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore...Our God is One of great power...Our God is One of Great Hope...In God we can trust...