When Things Go Wrong, Lean into the Security Found Only in God

　　“Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures forever” (Psalm 125:1).

　　From underneath two afghans I struggled for my phone.

　　“Dad’s on the way,” I texted my daughter, “have your teacher stick your lashes on for you.”

　　No amount of preparation or sheer will would have shaken the sickness which had hit. It demanded to be dealt with.

　　Each day, we wake with a schedule, a calendar, and a plan. But only God knows what each day will bring. When the bottom falls out of our day, our plan, our schedule, and our calendar …who do we run to? How do we react? The way we daily prepare and care for our hearts, minds and souls matters in moments of distress.

　　Psalm 125:1 reminds us of God’s unchanging character. He cannot be shaken. He endures forever. The author of the Psalm illustrates this reality through a visual God’s people were familiar with: Mount Zion. “The most appropriate symbol to illustrate the permanence of God’s people is Mount Zion,” Moody Bible Commentary explains. “Despite any geographic changes God may make when He renews heaven and earth, Zion will abide forever as the same distinct Zion of previous redemption history.”

　　Zion is a city, physically located on the top of a hill outside Jerusalem’s wall. Zion is the City of David, the City of God, the place Christ will rule on Earth, and an eternal Jerusalem. We cannot move literal mountains. The visual is starkly applicable today, just as it was to God’s ancient people. Our God is our Rock. Though the world is spinning with evil and disarray, we are steady in Christ Jesus. Through Him, we are eternally secure. We may be shaken, but we will endure beyond this earth to rest eternally with Him.

　　To trust in the LORD requires a relationship with Him. We can’t trust someone we don’t know. This is what God calls us to. In every one of us, each created in His image with specific purpose, is an innate desire to know Him more. And He meets us there, with a love we cannot comprehend fully on this earth.

　　The Hebrew root of trust means to be bold, secure, and confident. God loved us so much, He gave His one and only Son to save us (John 3:16). And Jesus willingly walked out the will of the Father to ensure our freedom. God saw us, not in our obedience, but our sin, and chose to save us. Jesus endured every pain and heartache on this earth to ensure it. This plan was put in place from the beginning. It would not be shaken. It will endure forever. The first two verses of Psalm 125 describe “the solid security of God’s people” (NIV).

　　“Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion,

　　which cannot be shaken but endures forever.

　　As the mountains surround Jerusalem,

　　so the LORD surrounds his people

　　both now and forevermore”

　　(Psalm 125:1-2).