Psalm 121:3 He will not suffer your foot to be moved: he that keeps you will not slumber. Any of you who have tried to climb the hills know that that is just the great danger of it. One slip, and you may go sheer down hundreds of feet, and be dashed to pieces. Do we not use this expression to cover the idea of safety? We talk about the "sure-footed" guide, and the "sure-footed" mountaineer, the man of keen eye and cool nerve, and of muscles like iron all over his body; a man who can be depended on. If he gets a foothold for his foot, he will put his foot there, and keep it there, until he gets another as good. So is the Christian. Why, in one sense, we are engaged in a perilous journey. We are going up. We are climbing. To brace yourself to climb the Matterhorn is a small thing compared with this girding of your mind to be sober and climbing right up from hell to heaven. And that is the climb for every one of us. (John McNeill) Parallel Verses KJV: He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.WEB: He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber. |
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