Psalm 123 "To you I lift up my eyes..."

Psalm 123
To you I lift up my eyes,
  O you who are enthroned in the heavens!
2As the eyes of servants
  look to the hand of their master,
as the eyes of a maid
  to the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes look to the Lord our God,
  until he has mercy upon us.
3Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us,
  for we have had more than enough of contempt.
4Our soul has had more than its fill
  of the scorn of those who are at ease,
  of the contempt of the proud.
 
 

Question:

I saw it in my dreams. I have read the Psalm several times but I cannot make any meaning out it relating my situation. Thanks.

Comment:

The first stanza of Psalm 123 is a simple, clear affirmation of God as Source. The exact imagery may be less meaningful to us today than it was when the psalm was written—the relationship of master and servant is not what Jesus taught about our personal relationship to God—but the underlying realization remains important: whatever may be occurring in our lives, God is the only Source of our good.   The second stanza calls upon our relationship with the divine to lift us above the dramas and conflicts of our human experience. "The contempt of the proud" can only stem from spiritual ignorance—a belief that some are more entitled to the blessings of God than others. At the time of the psalms, that contempt was often expressed most forcefully by religious authorities caught up in deciding who was—and was not—worthy of admission into the community of the faithful. This psalm remembers and affirms that our personal relationship to God is direct and immediate. It does not depend on the attitudes of those who may hold us 'in contempt' according to their own misguided standards.   Blessings!

Rev. Ed