By Pastor Don Schatz

God is all Around Us

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“He will not let your foot slip….”

Psalm 121:3 New International Version

Now, I tend toward the clumsy side.  I don’t even need a banana peel for help.  Or a push, someone to stick out their leg, or any other kind of assistance to be clumsy.  It comes naturally.  Apparently, it’s in the genetic coding.  Makes one wonder why my wife ever allowed me to buy power tools.  Now that I think of it…she bought me a couple of those!  But I digress.

Even the most adroit, the naturally adept, the non-clumsy among us can slip in life.  Based on the context of Psalm 121:3, the Psalmist meant that the Lord would protect us.  Protect us from the dangers that can threaten us in life.  For me, at least, it is an apt metaphor.

The last months of her life, before hospice, my wife and I would walk around our block.  She loved to walk.  She held tightly to my arm.  She was weak and unsteady.  Once, we made it all the way around the block!  Each time we walked, small step by small step, I would think of this verse.  Later, during hospice when I eventually had to lift her bodily from bed to place her on a commode, I promised again and again that I would not let her fall, that I would protect her.  Some of you have been there.  When we have the opportunity to be the instrument he uses to ‘let the foot slip’ in the life of another.  Real life.  The slip-and-slide life that is not fun, there is no laughter, and joy seems far away.

But God’s love is always there in the words of the Psalmist, “I will not let your foot slip.”  How many parents, family, friends, perhaps strangers, brothers and sisters in Christ and countless others has the Lord used in your life, for you?  Who is in your life today for whom you can be the Lord keeping his promise still:  “I will not let your foot slip.”

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