Highland Christian Church

2020 - Crappy Year, Good God (Psalm 120:1-7)There are playlists we like to pull out for travel.  Sometimes we spend a few hours creating the "perfect" playlist.  They remind us of vacations before, long drives, and great destinations.  God uses the Psalms to help us a we journey toward Him.  The Psalms are a place of mourning, questioning what we are seeing, and simple turns back to God in the midst of struggle and sorrow.Psalm 120:1 - is the very first verse in a playlist Jews would sing on their way up to the Temple.  It was a declaration.  "I took my troubles to the Lord; I cried out to him, and he answered my prayer."  It is no coincidence the songs START with this.  We could take our troubles anywhere these days, but are we fed up enough that we will take them to Him?This psalm talks of fighting and lying and trouble.  It speaks of living in a land where people say they want peace, but it doesn't seem to be what people really want.  It's a "fed-up-ness" with all th