I Lift Up My Eyes to the Hills

I lift up my eyes to the hills —
from where will my help come?
²My help comes from the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.
³He will not let your foot be moved;
he who keeps you will not slumber.
⁴He who keeps Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
⁵The LORD is your keeper;
the LORD is your shade at your right hand.
⁶The sun shall not strike you by day,
nor the moon by night.
⁷The LORD will keep you from all evil;
he will keep your life.
⁸The LORD will keep
your going out and your coming in
from this time on and forevermore.

Kayaking Lindbergh Lake and viewing the Mission Mountains, complete with glaciers clinging to their peaks, my heart leapt at the sight. How marvelous is the world we see. How amazingly beautiful it is. A scientist could explain all of the reasons why things are the way they look, but science cannot explain why seeing it makes you want to bow down to the Creator. Only theology can explain that. God didn’t just make it work, God make it strike us as beautiful, so we would know how much we are honored as the recipients of such glorious work.

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