Yesterday's Psalm reading included our text. Since Abel, this has been the battle cry of the wicked, "Let us destroy them." Kistallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass"), which occurred on November 9 and 10, 1938 throughout Germany, was a modern version of our text. The next day Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote those dates in the margin of his Bible beside our text, a stark reminder of just how little things had changed for Jews.
Jews worldwide are celebrating the 65th anniversary of the modern state of Israel. Yet there has been an Israel since the call of Abraham, since the Living Triune God changed Jacob's name to, "Israel." And the Psalm which declares, "He Who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep," is a truth which endures to this very moment. Humanity has experienced suffering since the Garden, and Covenant People are no exception to this. The whys have been discussed and will be discussed unceasingly. But thankfully our Lord Jesus Christ never, "slumbers nor sleeps," and keeps Himself and His words before us, "I will never, no positively never ever leave you nor forsake you."
The Enemy has one purpose for humanity, "Let us destroy them." Satan and his legion of angels will attempt to "burn[] up all the meeting places of God in the land," in your life and my life. But he cannot succeed, because, "He Who keeps Israel," keeps you and me; He, "will neither slumber nor sleep."
You may be having "one of those days," a day of despair, or suffering, or sickness, or loneliness, or...... But right now, right there is Jesus Christ, your Jesus, the One Who the Bible declares Is, "for me." Let this Wonderful, "For me," be your Comfort and Strength today, your Power, your Health, Your Everything---------------- because He Is.
Father, in Jesus' Name, I so thank You that when the enemy determines to, "destroy them," You say, "I keep them." Amen.
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When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
"Looking unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2
"Looking unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2
