Harsh

"Jehovah God will keep your going out and coming in," Psalm 121:8.

Dearest God: My help comes from you. I may look to the top of hills or mountains, but it's from you, you alone! You made the skies and the earth, but you, you yourself, are my help. You keep me from being defeated in the midst of harsh hardship. You never sleep. You keep your people whole, and you keep me personally. Your right hand shades us from the beating heat. Darkness cannot seep through your protection. You keep us from evil - you keep our lives precious to you. We look to you. To you alone for our keeping from now into eternity.

As we speak with a brother or sister today we remind of our God's faithfulness in life's struggles. And, together, we give thanks to Jesus, God's agent, who will lose none of us, his own.