Thursday, 30April, 2026

Overcome a mountain

“I will lift up my eyes to the hills- From whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth”- ( Psalm 121:1)

Have you faced a mountain lately! Except for those living in desert plains, it is common to see hills rising over any landscape. But if a hill or mountain is ahead of you, one can hardly see beyond. Hills or mountains by nature are an obstruction. There are places where tunnels have been constructed to pass through either but mostly people decide to just go around to get ahead. In brief, such can be an obstacle in our journeys.

As believers we can also come up and face mountains. A mountain can feature in our very lives when we are faced with a challenge that we can’t see beyond. The challenge seems to be so huge and impossible to seamount. Perhaps we might even be too terrified that instead of figuring a way out, we drop down, exhausted with fear and worry.

When King David came up a mountain, instead of only focusing on it, he looked beyond to something higher and more hopeful. The Almighty God who made the heaven and earth, and controls all situations. Instead of focusing on the mountain of problems, he asked, “From whence my help comes?”

Once there was a situation when Moses sent out scouts to spy a new land. Of the 12 spies everyone saw mountains; except two warriors who looked beyond hills, and believed there was a God greater than the giants they had seen ( Numbers 13). Joshua and Caleb believed that that God would deliver them in spite of all the “hills” they saw.

Today, if you have come up a mountain, may your faith rise and look beyond, for you are an overcomer! Like Joshua and Caleb did! Like David, believe, that our help comes from the Lord, our very present help in all troubles.

Prayer today: Lord Father God of Abraham, maker of heaven and earth, where I come up a mountain I look beyond, because you are our present help, and will carry me through and beyond, this I pray in Jesus’s name!