quite common. The phrase was to the effect that if anyone should contest the will, it was ordered that he should receive the sum of one dollar. It was just one sentence, of a gen eral nature, so but it took care that eral nature, but it took care of no no eventuality was overlooked. This is what the Psalmist is doing in add ing a line in God’s contract with the believer to cover every eventuali ty, “The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil.” The summary is given to us in verse eight of this 121st Psalm: “The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth and even forever more.” What a promise! Coming in for fellowship; going out for service. Now, when we read, “from this time forth,” we know it refers to the time when we lift up our eyes and look to the Lord rather than to others. “Delight thy self in the Lord and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.” The problem is that too many of us have had our eyes upon the desires and not upon the Lord. This is where disappointments, d is tre s s , failure and frustration come in. From the moment you lift up your eyes and look upon Him, He is going to take care of you. He is going to give you those things which are necessary to a well-balanced life. Here is the way by which we can have the fog and difficulties of life lifted from us if we look unto the Lord. Are you willing to try it? Will you let the Lord have His way? The Bible gives us the wonderful as surance that there is hope and vic tory for our souls as we look to the Lord. Let me put it in the words of the poet, “We mutter, we sputter We fume and we spurt; We mumble, we grumble Our feelings get hurt. We can’t understand things,
by night.” You remember that when the children of Israel were traveling through the wilderness, God gave them a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. While these two wonderful and miraculous pro visions were used as a means of guidance, there was something more to it than this. Clouds from God protected the children of Israel from the scorching rays of the day’s sun, and the fire was used to keep them warm at night. So, the Lord provides a shadow or a shade for us from the rays of the scorching activities of life. He also gives us the warmth of the fire of His presence in order to protect us from the cold chill which so often envelops the soul. In verse seven of Psalm 121, we read, “The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil.” This is what we might call the general contract which God wants to sign with us. If He has not touched upon some area of life that is of concern to us today, then He says, “This is what I offer. This is the opportunity you have of making sure that no matter what difficulty might come, I will take care of it.” Some time ago some of our work ers were discussing with a wonder ful Christian couple, who wanted to remember the work of the Lord in their will, the disposition of their property. As we were chatting with them, (of course, with us was a born-again Christian attorney) they stated that since they had no chil dren, and only distant relatives who lived dissolute lives, they wanted their funds to be used to further the Gospel cause. They had investi gated and found that their kin were not in need and that the money would only be spent in drink or some other form of worldliness. They asked the attorney, “Isn’t there some way we can protect ourselves so that they will not come into court after our death and try to take away this money which we want used for the Lord’s work?” He inserted some thing into the will which evidently is
Our vision grows dim, When all that we need Is a moment with Him.”
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