Today’s reading is Psalm 121.
When I first read Psalm 121, I thought to myself, “How is this going to be a Christmas reading?” However, in a short period of time and with prayer, it became very clear.
I lift my eyes to the hills.
From where does my help come?
My help comes from the Lord,
who made Heaven and Earth.
Psalm 121:1-2
On Christmas, our human minds think of Jesus’ first existence being when He arrived on this Earth on that first Christmas being born of His mother Mary, wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger.
But let’s take a look at the book of John for a moment..
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him was not any thing made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.
John 1:1-4
Jesus was there in the beginning when the Heavens and the Earth and everything in it were created. This is easy to forget and wrap our arms around since we first see Jesus as that baby in a manger on Christmas. But it’s very clear He was there in the beginning from John 1, and we are also told in Psalm 121:1-4 around a thousand years earlier that our help comes the same God who made Heaven and Earth
We read later in John 1.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14
How truly blessed are we that Jesus who made the Heavens and the World and everything in them chose to come down from His throne and Heaven on that first Christmas to live one of the most humble lives we can imagine to ultimately suffer and give his life on the cross so we could be united with Him and live eternally in Heaven?!
As we read on in Psalm 121…
The Lord will keep you from all evil;
He will keep your life.
Tho Lord will keep
Your going out and your coming in
from this time forth and forevermore.
Psalm 121:7-8
Jesus’ life on this Earth started in that stable and being laid in a manger. But at His ascension when His physical body left this Earth to go back to His throne in Heaven where He was in the beginning, He told us the following just like Psalm 121:7-8 does…
“And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:20b
So on this Christmas, let us remember that every Bible reading is a Christmas reading because the entire Bible points to and is about Him…He is the Word. And let us remember that He didn’t stay in that manger, just like He didn’t stay on that cross, just like He didn’t stay in that grave…He is with each one of us always both on Christmas and every other day until the end of the age.
Merry Christmas!
