Life is a journey, and God has provided songs to help us along the way.

Join Scott Pauli today as we study the songs of degrees found in the Psalms.

They will encourage your heart and give help for the journey ahead.

Our world today has more safety precautions probably than any generation that's ever lived. Every vehicle that you buy,

every code that has been enacted, so many laws, and all with the idea of keeping us safe.

I would remind you that scripture says safety is of the Lord. And I believe that, and while

common sense has to be exercised, when you come to the journey of life, we have to have the Lord. And I believe that, and while common sense has to be exercised, when you come to the

journey of life, we have to have the Lord's protection. We can take every precaution, and you can work

at everything, but apart from the Lord, we're not safe. We've come in our journey through these songs

of degrees, these traveler Psalms to Psalm 125.

We don't know exactly who wrote it. It's only five verses long, but it is profound. It's really

an extension, I think, of Psalm 124. You know, the old Hebrew doctors, the Jewish doctors, believed that if an author was not assigned to a Psalm, that whoever wrote the previous one was the author.

Well, if that's true, then David is writing here because we know that David wrote Psalm 124.

And in that Psalm, which we've already studied, we saw how the Lord protected,

how the Lord took care of his own people. Well, that thought continues. In Psalm 125, verse 1,

the Bible says, they that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but

abideth forever.

As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people,

from henceforth even forever.

For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous,

lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity. Do good, O Lord, unto those that

be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts. As for such as turn aside under their

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