God Is With You Always!
"The Lord shall preserve you from all evil;
He shall preserve your soul. The Lord shall
preserve your going out and your coming in
from this time forth, and even forevermore."
Psalm 121: 7-8
At times Christians ask, “Given the
Bible’s
promises about God’s protection, why do
Christians still experience hurtful and evil
events?” Psalm 121 is a good example
of such promises.
This psalm has four stanzas—the first states
that our help comes from God; the last three
make
illustrative promises about how God
helps us (verses 3-4, 5-6, 7-8).
These promises, taken literally, suggest that
nothing bad ever happens to God’s people.
But that’s not
the psalmist’s point. Rather,
he says that God watches over His people
wherever they go and whatever they
do;
God won't “slumber nor sleep” (verse 4).
David expressed God’s watchfulness in
detail in Psalm 139:1-12. Paul summarized
God’s care in Romans
8:35-39: Nothing “shall
be able to separate us from the love of God
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (verse 39).
God is with you today—right now—watching
over you and your whole life. Nothing passes
through the filter of His
will and awareness,
“even forevermore.”
"God watches and weeds us,
and continues his labour upon
us, till he brings us to the end
of his promise."
Richard Sibbes