- Round About
Psalm 125:2
As the mountains are round about Jerusalem,
So the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even forever.
Mountains surrounding a valley can be easily seen from the secure city. The invisible Lord surrounding His people cannot be seen from the secure place. For this reason the Word of God uses the visible as a metaphorical picture of the invisible. If we could only see the Lord round about us as clearly as we see the mountains round about us we would rest secure, feel safe, live without fear and never need to worry again. The Word implants faith in the spiritual, eternal things, which cannot be seen. We look to (trust in) the things that are unseen, for they are eternal.
Elisha asked the Lord to open the eyes of the servant so he could thousands of armed angels on the surrounding hillsides fighting for Israel. We also need to see by faith that there are more with us than with the enemies. Take heart; be encouraged.
Without the Word to tell us what is really happening we would have nothing to trust in, nothing to hope for, everything to fear and everything to doubt. With the Word we can have confidence, security, peace and calm, for we see what can’t be seen. Faith sees the Lord round about us forever.
God gives us promises like this because our vision and experience is limited to the physical and material world. By faith we take hold of a promise like this and start to imagine what it is really like to have the Lord round about us from now on and forever. Imagine! See! Picture! Believe!