The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.
The Psalmist opens as though an unbeliever, casting his eyes about in confusion, here and there, as if faith had not yet fixed him on God. But this unsettled looking teaches us something: true believers must learn to turn from all such wandering and direct their eyes alone to the Lord who made heaven and earth, where all help resides.
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Commenting on Psalm 121:1-8
The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore. 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.
Do not rely on creatures, on princes and great men like hills that fill the earth. In vain is salvation hoped for from them. Lift your eyes above the hills themselves; look beyond instruments to God, who makes them what they are to us. My help comes from the Lord alone, fetched in by faith in His promises and due regard to His institutions.
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Commenting on Psalm 121:1-8