Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. We are picking up with day two of our

real hope devotional in the Bible app. There's a link to that in the description in the podcast if

you guys want to follow along with us and as always I'm going to read the scripture and then

Tories can I pick up with the Divo and let's do it. The scripture is Psalms 121 verses 1 and 2

and it says this I lift up my eyes to the mountains where does my help come from my help comes from

the Lord the maker of heaven and earth. The devotional is titled I lift my eyes to the mountains

and it says have you ever wondered why King David wrote I will lift my eyes up to the mountains.

We know God does not live in the mountains so why look up there when you're in trouble.

David wrote this song when he was king but before that he hid from King Saul in those very mountains

to stay alive. Those mountains represent some of the hardest most challenging, fearful,

exhausting and frustrating times in his life so why would David focus on them because it was in those

mountains that David discovered the very heart of God. A God who protects, leads, shelters and

encourages. It was where he found safety and shelter. In Psalm 27 he wrote for he will conceal me

there when troubles come. He will hide me in his sanctuary. He will place me out of reach on a

high rock. King David is reminding us to look back and remember God's faithfulness.

It is not often that you can say I am weary and hear collective size of understanding from

almost an entire room of people. That's the place we find ourselves two years into a global

pandemic that upended our world and taught us new words we would have never known. We still hope

that we are closer to the end than the beginning but none of us really know what tomorrow will bring

but don't be discouraged. Maybe this is an opportunity to put into practice what King David was

teaching us. Hard times can become your mountain. A time that you can look back on and discover God's

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