READ: PSALM
125:1-5
The concept
of bodyguards has become the latest fad. Celebrities, music starts,
international footballers, government officials and even religious leaders have
in their employ highly-paid bodyguards in order to keep intruders, miscreants
and unwanted visitors away. However, the major purposes of hiring well-trained
bodyguards are to ensure the security and protection of the life of the one who
is guarded. Nevertheless, bodyguards try their best but only God actually
protects. When we talk about a keeper, we are talking about a protector, like a
bodyguard. There are many kinds of bodyguards but the only One who can keep and
protect is the Almighty God. In Psalm 125:2-3, the bible says, “As
the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people from this
time forth and forever. For the specter of wickedness shall not rest on the
land allotted to the righteous, lest the righteous reach out their hands to
iniquity.” The Almighty God surrounds us like a mountain. In Zechariah
2:5, we are told that if God is our bodyguard, He surrounds us with a wall of
fire. There are keepers who can keep you from human beings and animals. When it
comes to attacks from witches and wizards, you need a keeper that is not an
ordinary human being because these are invisible enemies. With the wall of fire
around you, if anybody wants to attack you, that fellow will have to pass
through the fire first. The fire surrounding you is the consuming fire. In
Isaiah 54:17, God says no weapon hat is formed against us shall prosper. It
does not matter what the enemy wants to attack with. God will neutralise it. He
will then hut the gates of your house so firmly that nobody can open it.
Revelation 3:7 says, “And to the angel of the church in
Philadelphia write, These things says He who is holy, He who is true, He who
has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one
opens.” When God shuts your gate, no devil can open it. The Almighty
God never grows old so He remains forever strong to be effective as your
Bodyguard. Isaiah 26:4 says, “Trust in the LORD forever, for in YAH, the
LORD, is everlasting strength.” God does not grow old, so He does not
grow weak. Again in Psalm 102:25-27, the Bible has this to say: “Of
old You laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your
hands. They will perish, but You will endure; yes, all of them will grow old
like a garment; like a cloak You will change them, an they will be changed. But
You are the same, and Your years will have no end.” He does not change
with years. This is confirmed in Hebrews 13:8: “Jesus Christ is the same
yesterday, today, and forever.” Once God is your protector you have
nothing to fear. No power can harm you as long as God is your refuge.
MEMORIZE:
ISAIAH 26:3 –You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You,
because he trusts in You.
