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.

Do you enjoy listening to good music, especially when you're on the road, when you're on a journey?

We are learning some of the most beautiful songs as we study Psalm 120 through 134,

the Songs of Degrees, the Pilgrims' Songs, Songs for the Journey.

And we've studied Psalm 120 and Psalm 121, and now we come to Psalm 122.

Now there are a couple of very significant things about Psalm 121, and now we come to Psalm 122. Now, there are a couple of very significant things

about Psalm 122. First of all, it's the first of them that tells us who the author is. This is a song

of degrees that David wrote. That's very appropriate, because as you're going to see in just a

moment, he writes about Jerusalem,

and that is a city that David knows a great deal about. It's a place that he loved. It was dear to his own heart, and we'll discover why in just a moment. But not only that, most Bible teachers

believe that these songs of degrees run in sets of three, which means that we have come now to the complete first

stanza, if you will. We've studied Psalm 120. We've studied Psalm 121. Now we come to Psalm 122.

In Psalm 120, we learned something about laying aside those things that are going to keep us from journing on

with great blessing and laying aside bitterness and giving the enemies to God.

Is there anything like that you still need to lay aside today? Do it now.

Lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily beset you.

Then in Psalm 121, we learned something about the travelers rest, that along the journey, when you get weary, that you can rest in the Lord

because he's your helper, he's your keeper, he's going to preserve you every step of the way.

In Psalm 120, he looked around. In Psalm 121, he looked up. In Psalm 122, our Psalm

for today, he looks ahead. And what does he see? Remember, these songs were sung as they went up to Jerusalem,

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