AUGUST 24, 2025

  "...Wait, there's no mountain too great

Hear these words and have faith

Have faith

He lives in you, he lives in me

He watches over everything we see

Into the waters, into the truth
In your reflection, he lives in you"

- THE LION KING

PSALM 120-123

1I lift up my eyes to the mountains—

where does my help come from?

2My help comes from the Lord,

the Maker of heaven and earth. (121:1-2)

1 CORINTHIANS 6

 19Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

JOURNAL 

I absolutely love The Lion King, the movie, the play, the soundtrack. It connects with me on so many levels, and as a result the music has a way of undoing me emotionally. The track from the Broadway play, He Lives in You, always seems to cut through my defenses. The words, “He lives in you, he lives in me, he watches over everything we see”...carry weight because they echo a truth I have experienced many times.

There have been seasons when I have felt the safety and warmth of God’s Spirit in the middle of circumstances that threatened to undo me. In the darkest nights of worry or confusion, I have clung to the reminder that “He lives in me.” That simple truth has calmed some of the stormiest seas of my mind and heart. It reminds me of the psalmist who said, “I lift up my eyes to the mountains—where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth” (Psalm 121:1–2).

Life is nothing if not a series of stormy seas. Yet those stormy seas are not wasted. They become the very moments that shape us, the moments that give life its depth and meaning. When everything is calm, it is easy to forget that God is near. But when the waves rise, we discover in a real and tangible way that God has never left us. He is in all things, from the highest mountain of triumph to the lowest valley of despair. As Paul reminds us, “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price” (1 Corinthians 6:19–20). The presence of God is not something out there on the horizon, it is within us.

And so, when fear comes, and it always does...God’s command rings louder than the storm. “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you” (Deuteronomy 31:6). That is why the song speaks so deeply: into the waters, into the truth, even into the reflection in the mirror, He lives in you.

Honestly, part of me still wants to wish the storms away, to hope for an easier road. But then, I would miss the beauty of what God is doing in the middle of it all. The Lion King reminds me through story and song of something Scripture has been saying all along: there is no mountain too great, no sea too stormy, no night too dark, that His Spirit will not meet me there.

And so I return to this truth again and again: He lives in me. He lives in you. He will never leave us, never forsake us.

6Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.” 

DEUTERONOMY 31:6