Our Keeper

I am lifting up my eyes to the hills lately, as Psalm 121 suggests, or more like across to the hills, as my brother's rental property is high above Vail, CO.  (And when I say high, I mean that the semis on highway 70 below are mere specks.)  It's a completely delicious view. 

So I'm lifting my eyes across to the hills, the Gore range, they tell me, and I'm meditating on Psalm 121, and the help that comes from the Lord who keeps me.  This keeping God doesn't sleep or shirk His Creator duties in any way.  He is my shade from the daily sun and the nightly moon.  He protects and delivers and keeps me alive, according to Psalm 41:2.   He will not let my foot be moved.

You know, this Psalm is not about me at all, although it is a great comfort.  It is really about my Keeper, the One who never sleeps, the One who keeps watch over my body and soul.  What a generous and powerful and kind God we belong to. 

Jude reminds us of the same truth:  Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. 

He is the only God, our Savior.  Meditate on Him this day, and give in to His keeping of you.