I lift my eyes up to the mountain

 

Could you please tell me your creation background of <I lift up my eyes> song?

I was in the living room and wanted to write a new song. There is a vers in the bible wich says: Come and sing a new song for the Lord. So I have the habit, to write new songs frequently. In this case I first played some new chords on my guitar and than I selected the words from Salem 121. I love to recitate the words of the bible in my songs, because for me the words of the bible are always strong words and an encouragement. I only recitated the first two phrases from this salme and than I put my own thoughts about this salme into the text.

Which sort of musical instrument did you choose when you create this song?

A: I used the guitar. I like to play some chords on the guitar until they transform into a melody and finally into a song.

From your lyrics, which sentence leave you most deep impression?

A: He guards me like a sheep. When I pray and leave my troubles over to the Lord, we come in into a sheep-shepherd relation. When I was young we had three sheep in our home. Very fine animals. If you imitate their voice, they answer and want to talk to you. We had to raise one sheep with the bottle of milk and it followed us like a dog. The others just followed me, when I walked with them outside. A sheep confides his shepherd and a good shepherd defendes his sheep from all dangerous situations.

Could you please say something to Chinese audiences? Let them feel the same peaceful pretty mood like you

A: When life goes hard and we fall in troubles and depression, the first thing we have to do is to lift our eyes. We gain nothing, when we walk around with hanging head feeling sorrow about ourselves. The next thing we have to do is to deliver our problems to the Lord. There is absolutly no meaning to tell all neighbours and friends about my troubles. They never can solve it. But there is one in the universe, who can solve it, he who has created us and has all power in his hand. He already is waiting for us to come and to tell him the smallest thing in our life and there is nothing to great or small for him, he wants to take care of it. But we have to allow him, that he works in our life. Our creator is a gentleman, he does nothing in our life without permision.

Now let us enjoy the song. .

Songtext:

I lift up my eyes to the mountains

Where does my help come from

My help comes from God

Who has created heaven and earth

He s moving his hands When I pray

I am quiet He s fighting for me

He guards me every day Like a sheep

He leads me and protects me He is the good shepherd

Always I will praise him Always I will pray

To my  great God My help my strength