Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion,
which cannot be moved, but abides forever.
As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
so the Lord surrounds his people,
from this time forth and forevermore.
What a timely word! “Those who trust in the Lord… cannot be moved.”
I must confess though: I am often moved. Moved by emotions, by circumstance, by suffering, by anxiety, doubt, and uncertainty. I often feel much more like a pebble than a mountain. Pebbles get kicked, run over, scattered around, tossed two and fro. I’m not a mountain, not even a boulder… barely even a pebble.
This, of course, happens when I forget the first line of this psalm: “Those who trust in the Lord…” When I place my trust in my wisdom, my abilities, my faithfulness more than in the Lord, I am sure to be scattered like gravel, and tossed about. When I trust my leaders, my institutions, my pastors, my you-fill-in-the-blank, more than I trust in the Lord, then I am sure to be moved by every hint of difficulty and every passing circumstance. As we have seen with urgent poignancy in recent days: life happens, for better and for worse, and it is only by trusting in the Lord that we remain unmoved.
— Chaz Holsomback