Psalm 121

I chose this Psalm for two reasons. One, because this Psalm reminded me of the song Praise You in This Storm by Casting Crowns, secondly because it has an interesting focus on God and what he does. Through this Psalm I feel like we learn a lot about God and the nature of him. Because God is our protector we can tell that he loves us. From God protecting us from harm you can tell that he has a life that he wants us to live for him. Also because he protects us in what we do we can see that we have a purpose in life. This Psalm though does raise some questions. The phrase of God protecting us from all harm. People could look at this Psalm and say that this Psalm is nothing but a lie, bad things happen to God's people all the time. I would like to think that that question would be reserved to Non-Christians but Christians are very capable of asking the same question. This Psalm gives me a lot of peace. Knowing that my help comes from God is provision in all situations. No matter what is going on God is there and for me. This definitely gives me encouragement and strength in hard times. I would like to use this congregationaly, but I would like to use it in another method than call and response or simply reading it. The only creative thing I can think of would be to split it up into four two verse chunks, reciting the verse and singing a song that is in line with the verse and using it as the framework for the worship service.