The Lord Puts a Guard on You

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Psa. 121:4-5 “…He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD watches over you– the LORD is your shade at your right hand.”

The word translated “watches” here is “shamar”. It is sometimes translated “keeps” and Strong’s concordance says it is:

“A primitive root; properly to hedge about (as with thorns), that is, guard; generally to protect, attend to, etc.: – beware, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep (-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch (-man).”

So thank God that He puts a guard to you to protect, save and watch over you… and He never sleeps! Without that protection we would all be defenceless to the attacks of the enemy. That shouldn’t lead to complacency on our part but it does us good to be aware that God has the final say in the works of the enemy and as we see in the book of Job, God does put a ‘hedge’ around His own to protect them and only allows the enemy to do what God in His sovereignty and omniscience deems right.