Song of Ascents - Psalm 121, Verse 2

O God, my Maker, how blessed I am for the great privilege You have granted me through Yeshua, my Saviour. With great grace You made a covenant saying, "I will be your God and you will be My people." I feel so secure that the sovereign, eternal, all wise God who rules in majesty is with me as my Helper and my Guide. I feel at rest and unafraid because as Your precious possession, there is nothing I need fear. O that each of Your children may enter into that true rest; free from anxiety and fear. With sincere confidence (not empty lip service) may our constant boast be: "My help comes from Adonai (not influential people or horses or bank balances; none of these; but Adonai Elohim, the Lord of hosts); for He is unlike any other—the Creator who upholds and sustains all things by the power of His word.

Song of Ascents comprises of a collection of 15 psalms from Psalm 120 to 134. While there are a number of suggestions as to what the phrase, “Song of Ascents” could mean, one thought is that these psalms were sung by Israel as they went up to Jerusalem to celebrate the three annual feasts that the Lord had commanded (Lev. 23; Ex. 23:14).

We have just concluded the Feast of Unleavened Bread which started on the 15^th day of the first month of the Biblical calendar (or on the evening of March 30, 2018). During this seven day feast, Israel went up to Jerusalem singing these Songs of Ascent. We have completed 9 days of counting up to the fifty days to Shavuot (Lev. 23:15-16).

My purpose of posting a verse from these psalms each day (during these days between the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot) which in Greek is called Pentecost) is so that we too—if you are a son (or daughter) of Israel, even though you once may have been a Gentile but now through the great grace shown to us by the Father and through the blood of the Messiah Yeshua—can pilgrim into the presence of the Most High God (for we are the temple of God and the Holy Spirit dwells in us) singing these psalms to Him who sits on the throne (in heaven and in our hearts).

Join with me then O son of Israel and let us exalt the name of our God together as we pilgrim on His appointed feast days just as He commanded.