Psalm 121 V 5 - 8 (NKJV)The LORD is your keeper; The LORD is your shade at your right hand. 6 The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.7 The LORD shall preserve you from all evil; He shall preserve your soul. 8 The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in From this time forth, and even forevermore.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ME
Fear is opposite of faith. Fear is faith in the devil’s ability to destroy you. Faith is confidence/trust in God to help you. What you fear most can happen to you. Job 3:27. So fear nothing. Every part of the world has something going on right now that is causing residents and citizens to be fearful. All nations are unstable in one thing or another. There is no safe place.
When you have something in your possession that you value, you keep it safe and secured. However you could be a careless person such that even what matters to you, you don’t keep with care. The Lord God on the other hand is never careless. What he cares for he keeps and protects forevermore. You have many valuables items/people you have lost because your protection is limited. The Lord cares for you. Place yourself into his possession and he will be your keeper. Not everyone the Lord desires to keep is agreeable to the Lord’s methods of safe keeping.
You could be running away from what God is surrounding you with in order to keep you and sustain you. The things you do when you fear hunger, fear being broke, fear divorce, fear being single, fear being jobless, fear being childless could lead you out of the fence of protection of the Lord. When you protect something there are rules you put in place so that there are guarantees of safety.
Although you believe that the Lord watches over you, you are still afraid for many areas of your life you feel you have no control over. The One who watches over you has control over you and everything that concerns you. Your task is to listen to how he intends to keep you so that his favor and care protects you. Don’t contradict the security features that God has put in place for your protection by walking in ignorance. Ignorance has no excuse, what you don’t know can kill you.
The Lord never slumbers and never sleeps but is always on duty. Consider the people who have body guards, these people cooperate with their body guards. They follow security rules because they know that disregarding them or violating them could mean death or harm. Therefore the guarded people understand that they are in danger from their enemies and refrain from wrong decisions and careless/undisciplined life styles.
As a child of God, you are guarded, watched over and under protection. Understand that you play an important role for your security to be a success. The Word of God tells you how you should live your life, read it and you will be enlightened on how to feel safe and stay safe. You could pray to God to keep you safe but as long as you live a life that violates his security rules you are bound to expose yourself to the enemy.
Every area of your life has these security rules which protect you from danger. As a believer, your conduct with people will determine how secured your relations and relationships are. Blessed shall you be when you come in and blessed shall you be when you go out. Just putting the Word in practice protects your relationships. If the Word says be faithful to your spouse/partner, being faithful will secure and keep your relationship.
The Lord preserves one who obeys his instructions. By obeying his Word, he will strengthen you in time of distress and need. Needy times befall you at some stage in your life, where do you run to? Some nations have refuge camps or have their nationalities that have become refuges in other nations. The Lord is the best dwelling place of refuge from the storms of life. He is a shade from the heat. Whatever has become too hot for you to handle get protection from the Lord.
The Lord will sustain you in hardships and sickness. Allow the Lord to preserve you. Don’t put your life at the mercy of the devil by your words and actions. How you live indicates whose protection you are in favor of. If you acquire riches by corrupt means, surely you don’t expect God to take care of that, anything you possess in contradiction to his Word falls out of his protection. Evil and wickedness is not of God.
For God to preserve you, you have to present yourself to him and let his will take over your life not your will. His thoughts are higher than yours; let him take care of you the way that is best. If you don’t yield to his methods of preserving, how can you be preserved? He understands your needs. Fear will never leave you because you don’t want to surrender control of your life to him. Realize this, the world can be a violent place to live but you can make it through each day knowing that your keeper is all-wise and all-knowing. Therefore you shall not be afraid of the terror by night, or of the arrow that flies by day.
The Lord guards the paths of justice and preserves the way of his saints. As a saint your way of life must agree with God. God is for you but you can be against yourself if you invite the enemy into your life, by not being in step with God. If two people are walking in step with each other it means they are going the same direction and are in one accord. Agree with God and you will feel safe and be at peace in a world full of turbulence of all kinds.
Cars have anti-hijack to protect them. You want Christ to protect you, why do you hang out with anti-Christ?