He's A Keeper

Psalm 121:1-8

I can remember as a little boy there was this thing called a salt box.  They would kill hogs and after they had butchered it they would put it in the salt box, putting salt on the meat to preserve it.  Even now, we can go in the store, pick up a package of ham and see from the label that sodium or salt is used as a preservative.  Without a preservative, the surroundings or the environment – bacteria, heat, humidity, etc. – would cause the meat to spoil. 

We have to have a “preservative” as well.  If we don’t have a protector or preserver our surroundings, the sin in this world, will cause us to deteriorate.  We need to be sealed and protected from the evil of this world.

Psalm 121:7-8: The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.  The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
 
The Lord will keep us as we go and when we return.  I remember one time I left home, like I did this morning, expecting to go back home like I came, but I didn’t.  Before the day was over I was in a bad accident.  I was put in the hospital; I didn’t go back home for over 12 or 13 days.  Did God go off and leave me? No! Sometimes God allows us to go through things, but He still kept me.  I lived to tell the story, and now I know from experience that if I give my life to Him, God will take care of me, no matter where I go.

We thank God for the Lord Jesus who, as He told his disciples, asked the Father to send another Comforter back.  And in the 2nd chapter of Acts we see the answer to Jesus’ prayer; the Spirit of God came to preserve them.  That’s what we have to keep us now - the Holy Spirit.  You have to have the Holy Spirit.  
So we thank God that He’s a keeper.  We thank God for our “preservative”, the Holy Spirit, that keeps us regardless of where we go or what we might do.  He’s my Keeper, and He can be your Keeper too.
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~J.T.