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God who helps me       [Psalms 121]         Once, during a gathering of Westminster Theological Seminary alumni, I had the opportunity to have a meal with a missionary couple serving in China, along with their four children. As the children were all boys, while the missionary pastor was interacting with them, his wife shared a unique aspect of her mission work in China.   She explained, showing us pictures, that she took an interest in reaching out to women engaged in the profession of prostitution.   The pastor would travel by bus for about ten hours and then walk for two more hours to teach in a remote valley where foreigners were a rare sight.   The people there showed genuine affection, and upon witnessing this, the pastor confessed that he, in fact, received grace from them.   After a brief period of engaging in mission work, when the pastor's wife made a prayer request for us, she expressed her desire to bec...

  God who helps me     [Psalms 121]     Do you know that you need help?  If so, what do you do when you need help?  Who are you asking for help?  When I personally need help, I tend to sing the hymn “Jesus, My Lord to Thee I Cry”.  In particular, I like the words of verse three: “No preparation can I make, My best resolves I only break, Yet save me for Thine own name’s sake, And take me as I am” (Internet).  When I fall because my strength and determination are weak and when I feel like I need help urgently, I pray God and sing this hymn “Jesus, My Lord to Thee I Cry.”  And often the bible verse that comes to my mind is Psalms 121:1-2: “I will lift up my eyes to the mountains; From where shall my help come?  My help comes from the LORD, Who made heaven and earth.”  I want to meditate on the whole of Psalms 121 under the title of "God who helps me" and to receive the lessons God gives...