Good morning. Today we look at a short but powerful Psalm – Psalm 121. I will lift up my eyes to the mountains; from whence shall my help come? Get your eyes off your problems and look up. Your help does not come from down here, but from God. My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. If He created the universe, my little problem will be no trouble to Him. He will not allow your foot to slip. As long as we hang onto Him, we will never fall. He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. He is always watching over us; He does not get tired. That reminds me of the story about a little old lady in London during World War II. When the air raid sirens would sound, everyone would run to the shelter. One day when it sounded, she did not show up to the shelter. Everyone figured that she went to the country to stay with her daughter. Next day they saw her in the street. We thought you had gone to the country to stay with your daughter. No I've been here all the time. Well where did you go when the air raid siren sounded? Nowhere. I just stayed home in bed. How could you do that when the bombs were coming? Well I read that God neither slumbers nor sleeps; and I figured there was no sense in both of us staying up. Back to the psalm: The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. The sun will not smite you by day, nor the moon by night. He is our sunscreen. The Lord will protect you from all evil; He will keep your soul. There is nothing that can harm us. He is aware that it's coming, and will let us know. The Lord will guard you're going out and you're coming in from this time forth and forever. With Him as our guard, who can harm us? Father thank You for watching over the reader; for keeping his/her foot from slipping. You are his/her keeper; his/her shade; his/her protector from all evil.

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