“None are so safe as those whom God keeps” by Charles Spurgeon

‘The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: He shall preserve thy soul. The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even forevermore.’ (Psalm 121:7-8)

“Jehovah will keep thy soul. Soul-keeping is the soul of keeping. If the soul be kept all is kept. God is the sole keeper of the soul.

Our soul is kept from the dominion of sin, the infection of error, the crush of despondency, the puffing up of pride.

Our soul is kept from the world, the flesh and the devil.

Our soul is kept for holier and greater things.

Our soul is kept in the love of God and kept unto the eternal kingdom and glory.

What can harm a soul that is kept of the Lord?

When we go out in the morning to labour, and come home at eventide to rest, Jehovah shall keep us.

When we go out in youth to begin life, and come in at the end to die, we shall experience the same keeping.

Our exits and our entrances are under one protection.

Three times have we the phrase, “Jehovah shall keep,” as if the sacred Trinity thus sealed the word to make it sure: ought not all our fears to be slain by such a threefold flight of arrows?

What anxiety can survive this triple promise? This keeping is eternal; continuing from this time forth, even forevermore.

The whole church is thus assured of everlasting security: the final perseverance of the saints is thus ensured, and the glorious immortality of believers is guaranteed.

Under the aegis of such a promise we may go on pilgrimage without trembling, and venture into battle without dread.

None are so safe as those whom God keeps; none so much in danger as the self-secure.

To goings out and comings in belong peculiar dangers, since every change of position turns a fresh quarter to the foe, and it is for these weak points that an especial security is provided.

Jehovah will keep the door when it opens and closes, and this He will perseveringly continue to do so long as there is left a single man that trusteth in Him, as long as a danger survives, and, in fact, as long as time endures.

Glory be to the Keeper of Israel, who is endeared to us under that title, since our growing sense of weakness makes us feel more deeply than ever our need of being kept.”

-Charles H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: Psalms 120-150, vol. 6 (London: Marshall Brothers, n.d.), 6: 16-17. Spurgeon is commenting on Psalm 121:7-8.