God's Got You Covered

Gary Russell

Summer in the Psalm • Sermon • Submitted 4 years ago

Psalm 121:title–8

Salvation

God's Providence

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It’s good to know that God cares. It’s good to know that He cares and that He cares enough that he voluntarily participates in our lives. It is God’s very nature to care. God is love. And that love is not passive but participatory, meaning God doesn’t just watch our lives but He is active and He is working. It is a great comfort to know that because there are times when we need God in such a way that we can’t go any further in life without Divine intervention in the situation. There are times when we make such a mess of our life that there is no way that we can fix it. There are times in our life when someone else makes such a mess of our lives that we just can’t fix it. There are times when God will break us down like he did ol Jacob and then have to put us back together again. And there is the rub, God is always present but his power is always available. Well at least this is the testimony of the Psalmist. That God is present and that God able, and this presence and power is available upon request. And we must realize and apply that God is concerned with us. God cared so much about Noah that he gave him schematics to build a boat. He cared so much about Abraham that He blessed his legacy. He cared so much about Hagar that he saw her affliction. He cared so much about Joseph that he coat of many colors with a robe of the Pharaoh. He cared so much about Moses that revealed his Proper name. He cared so much for the Israelites that he freed them from bondage. God cared so much for David that he spared his life too many times. He cared so much for Daniel that he saved him in the lion’s den. …..

Explain Acents

1. God Provides you with Support (1-2)

Exegete v.1

Have you ever seen these State Farm commercials?

2. God Doesn't Slumber or Sleep (3-4)

David is aware of the limited power of the false gods of his day. In antiquity it was not uncommon for gods to disappear, die, or sleep. When things got tough and a harvest would fail they would suggest that possibly the gods were sleep. Of if the kingdom lost a battle the would assume that possibly they went to war when their god was asleep. But, David is like nah. The all seeing God of Israel doesn’t slumber nor sleep.

God does not take a break.

3. God’s Presence is Your Selter (5-6)

Six times does this word for keep/preserve happen in the text, letting us know that God has to keep us because ultimately we can’t keep ourselves. God has to protect us and guard our very souls as the enemy wishes to not only kill us in this life but to also seize us for the next life. We are not able to keep ourselves. So, not only can we save ourselves, be we cant keep ourselves that way.

Swimming lessons

These verses are poetic hyperbole. You will be attacked, you will suffer hardship, but the idea that David is trying to make in worship is that “although the sun is hot is hot He won’t let it kill you.” Just consider your life and the way things go and if we are honest at times life is a hot mess, for many of us it could have still been a lot worse than it was. And even it what we suffer kills us we will wake up on the other end in glory.

4. God Preserves you with His Security (7-8)

God preserves you, covered you. and keeps you.

Going out and coming in. He covers me when i’m going he covers me when I’m coming in. He covers me then, he covers me now. He covers you at work, he covers you at home.