Read Psalm 121:1-7 1I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? 2My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. 3He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. 4Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. 5The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. 6The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. 7The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. 8The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.
The promises of God are stacked high on top of each other in this song of ascent. The weary pilgrim, climbing up Zion, may be tempted to look to the hills for a place to run and hide from trouble, but the help God offers always comes to us, beckoning us to keep going. Keep climbing. Don’t settle for second best. In their journey to the temple of God atop the mountain, God himself is with them, keeping them from stumbling, keeping them from being stricken by day or by night, truly he is keeping them from all kinds of evil.
He keeps their life.
He keeps your life. Do you believe this?
That’s what union with Christ is. Look nowhere else for help. Your help has come. It is from the Lord Jesus. Your ever present, never sleeping, foot securing, shade providing keeper. In your journey to him in the heavenly temple, he has come to you. He keeps you from within. He keeps you wherever you go – your going out and your coming in. He keeps you for all time – from this time forth and forevermore.
To live is Christ is not a journey to Christ. It is a journey with Christ. Christ has come to us. And he will keep you from stumbling. He will bring you all the way home.
Jude 24-25. 24Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, 25to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.
Prayer. Jesus, you have promised to keep my life as a blameless life presented to God in the temple of his glory with great joy. Help me trust this promise today and every day. Amen.
To Live is Christ 