We start worship this morning with:
A SONG OF ASCENTS.
I lift up my eyes to the hills.
From where does my help come?
My help comes from the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.
Psalms of Ascent were sung by pilgrims to Jerusalem as they would approach the city from one of the three valleys that surround and divide Mount Zion and Mount Moriah.
Mount Zion, the upper city, and Mount Moriah, the location of the temple, must have been impressive. But the Psalm does not admire their strength or the beauty of their pools.
Instead it asks a rhetorical question. “Where does my help come?”.
The answer is neither. Our help comes from the LORD!
For outside the city lay another hill — Golgotha.
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