We all would like to think that we know where we are going and how to get there.

But at every stage in life, we need divine direction. God has promised to guide us if we simply follow.

The fifth and final section of Psalms are referred to as Deuteronomy Psalms because they remind

us to keep returning to the truth of God's Word.

Join us as we study them with Scott Pauli today. When the world is closing in on you, I'm talking about from every side, there's only one thing you could do, you can look up.

Psalm 123, we read these words, unto thee, lift I up mine eyes, oh, thou that dwellest

in the heavens. You know, sometimes we get pretty bogged down here on earth, don't we? We get

inundated by people and things, and the stress and strain of it all gets to be too much. And those are

the moments that you

got to spiritually get your head up and get your eyes on the one who is above at all. He doesn't

dwell simply bogged down in circumstances here on earth like we do. He dwells in the heavens.

It means his way is higher than our ways, his thoughts higher than our thoughts.

He has a much better perspective than we do. You remember in a previous Psalm that the Psalm has said,

I will lift up mine eyes into the hills from whence come of my help. And then he goes on to say,

my help coming from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. The idea is, let's go to the highest

pinnacle on earth, that's the hills, and then let's go higher than that.

Let's go beyond the tallest peak we could find, and we will find a God who is greater than all.

He's not only bigger than this world, physically speaking, he is also bigger than whatever you're dealing with today.

So if it's caving in on you,

if you feel like I'm smothering in the midst of this, do what the psalmist did and lift your eyes up

and put your eyes on the Lord. Now, that's the first verse of Psalm 123. There are three verses that follow,

and in the three verses that follow, he elaborates on

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