Keeper
Psalm 121:5 ESV The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. When I hear the word keeper, I think of a goalkeeper in football. When the striker is bearing down upon the goal, the keeper comes out to intercept him. He doesn't just passively stand there to allow the attacker to circumnavigate him. God is the defender of his people. He doesn't abandon us. He actively fights the evil one who wants to destroy us. Another application of 'keeper' is that when someone is marriageable, we sometimes colloquially say 's/he's a keeper'. A 'keeper' relationally is someone we ought to and want to cherish. We're to value God above all. In the blazing Middle Eastern sun, to have the Lord as our shade isn't just a luxury, he's essential. Even with more melanin than me, the heat of summer can be a dangerous thing in hotter climates than the UK. We need God to be our 'right hand man', the One on whom we consciously rely in ev...