His brothers' Keeper

The Word for today:
Psalm 120, 121

mark this:  Psalms 121:5-8
The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade on your right hand.
The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.
The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.


Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. (1)
But even better than that, when he finds you he keeps you. That means you'll never be lost again!

Jesus died to save you.
Now he lives to keep you saved.

That's why keep, keeper, and kept are some of the most beautiful words in the Bible.  So I'm going to get out of beauty's way for a while and let the Word speak for itself:

He placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. (Genesis 3:24)


The LORD bless you and keep you;
the LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
the LORD lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.   (Numbers 6:24-26)


The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade on your right hand.
The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.
The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.  (Psalms 121:5-8)


You are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. (1 Peter 1:5)


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. (Jude 1:24-25)

 

Cain had asked,  Am I my brother's keeper?

His brother's blood, crying out from the ground, answered  No.  (2)

But God promised Abel another brother, the Seed of the Woman, 
whose blood cried out, and cries out still,
I am my brothers' Keeper.


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(1) Luke 19:10; (2) Genesis 4:9, 10; (3) see Genesis 3:15