Surely, some didn’t. All of our resources exist to guide you toward everlasting joy in Jesus Christ. He made all things, sustains all things, and rules all things, including every detail of our lives, even on the most difficult days. Proverbs says that no one who visits the “forbidden woman” will return to the paths of life. God Is Able to Keep You Trust the God who Is Able to Keep You. Most people in the world have no experience of lasting joy in their lives. Satan can make months, or years, or even decades miserable for us, but his leash is short, and eternity long. As he imagined what he might suffer, he looked beyond the threats he could see to the God behind everything. Evil can (and will) harm us in this life, but it can only do so much harm. We may have never really known and felt reality in the first place. The refrain over and over again in these eight verses was that the Lord can and will keep them.

Wherever he calls you to go, however hard the journey feels, whatever fears emerge along the way, hear him say, “The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore” (Psalm 121:8). The vulnerability and fragility in these verses describe the very different world we live in today, the world in which Satan prowls and sin tempts and death lurks. .” (Acts 4:24). He exploits our imagination, and torments our feelings of insecurity. Temptation hides and strikes. Either way, these hills made him feel small, vulnerable, and helpless: Who will help me now? The Lord can keep you, because there’s nothing this God cannot do. Surely the God who made the mountains “is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy” (Jude 1:24). They sang against danger. Amen.

The Israelites knew insecurity. Nothing can come between you and your God. But if you do feel your need for keeping — if you feel your weakness, and wonder how you’ll make it home — then take heart.

People were harmed on the way to Jerusalem, and you will be harmed following in the footsteps of Christ (John 16:33). Robbers hid in the caves and hills, knowing exactly when to expect their victims. But not a hair of your head will perish” (Luke 21:16, 18). The original is more emphatic.

The people knew they had to go, but they did not know if they would all make it. How can God say all evil when we seem to suffer so much from evil (our own and others’)? Amen.

Many of the greatest fears in life come not from what we can see, but from what we can’t — from the next unpredictable natural disaster, from the nameless and faceless thief that might break in while we’re asleep, from the disease that could strike someone in our family at any time. Anything that might ultimately harm you. Where does his help come from? If we don’t regularly feel our need for keeping, we have lost our hold on reality. Marshall Segal is a writer and managing editor at desiringGod.org. 24 Now to Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, 25 To the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Stumbling precedes falling. Holy Father, keep them in your name” (John 17:11). From where does my help come?” (Psalm 121:1). Satan consumes us with fear by inflaming the unknown. Besetting sin lingers. . Beware if “the Lord bless you and keep you” (Numbers 6:24) sounds stale, nice, “maybe necessary someday,” rather than urgent and indispensable. We don’t know what was in the imagination of the writer, whether the hills were hiding dangerous enemies or if they were simply empty of allies. No crisis or circumstance can overwhelm him. Jesus himself made the treacherous trip from his own hometown many times, walking (or riding) more than ninety miles each way. “The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night” (Psalm 121:6). What will he keep you from? He is never surprised or shaken. They cried out with hope into the uncertainty, drowning their fears with verse and chorus. When God’s people felt their need for keeping along the road to Jerusalem, they did not cover their mouths in fear; they raised an anthem. .

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