Psalm 121:7-8 The LORD shall preserve you from all evil: he shall preserve your soul.… It is a promise which should be kept in mind in all our business, in all our movements; amid all the changes and chances of this mortal life. We shall ever more be defended by that ready help, which supposes an eye that cannot close — an arm that cannot fail. But I know of a "going out" and of a "coming in," where we shall especially need the preserving care of our God; and to these, as to every other, may the promise be extended. There is a "going out" from this world, — there is a "coming in" to the next world: the departure through death from the present scene, and the entering on the unknown futurity. But "the Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in." Christ Jesus, according to His own declaration, has the keys of death and the invisible world; He, therefore, it must be, who dismisses the spirit from the flesh, and opens to it the separate state. And why should the believer shrink from the act of dissolution, as though it would be something tremendously awful, when he is thus assured that the Redeemer Him-self will officiate (as it were) at the taking down of "the earthly house of this tabernacle" — be with Him at the "going out" and the "coming in," which he is so ready to invest with terror and dismay? (H. Melvill, B. D.). Parallel Verses KJV: The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.WEB: Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul. |
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