Psalm 121--My Help Comes from the LORD

Psalm 121
English Standard Version

My Help Comes from the LORD
A Song of Ascents.
121 I lift up my eyes to the hills.
    From where does my help come?
2 My help comes from the LORD
    who made heaven and earth.

3 He will not let your foot be moved;
    he who keeps you will not slumber.
4 Behold, he who keeps Israel
    will neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The LORD is your keeper;
    the LORD is your shade on your right hand.
6 The sun shall not strike you by day,
    nor the moon by night.

​7 The LORD will keep you from all evil;
    he will keep your life.
8 The LORD will keep
    your going out and your coming in
    from this time forth and forevermore.

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The LORD is not like man who is corruptible, and often makes promises they cannot keep.  God is always present, always faithful, and always able to save those who cry out to Him for help.  The one who has the power to speak all of creation into existence out of nothing is the one with the power to deal with any "impossible" situation we run into.  Nothing seems more impossible at this point in the Bible than creating something from nothing, so it is why the act of creation is often used to tell us that God is big enough and powerful enough to handle anything that can come our way.

God does not rest, sleep or slumber.  We see Elijah joke about this with the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel when he taunts them saying, “Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.” (1 Kings 18:27).  Of course, Elijah was saying this in jest because the false gods of the Canaanites didn't even exist--at best, we can say that they worshiped demons that pretended to be gods but had no power of their own other than that which was given to them by God when He created them.  The LORD has always been and is uncreated.  He has no need for rest or slumber, though He rested on the seventh day as a pattern for us because He wanted us to rest on the seventh day and make it holy so that it would be a day to remember His as Creator and Redeemer and Savior--a day set aside for worshiping Him both corporately and individually.

The LORD is at the position of power--the right hand.  He is there to defend us and protect us.  He is there to support us when we are weak, and He is able to keep us from all evil and all harm that would come our way.  In our comings and in our goings both now and forevermore (both in this world and in eternity to come) we rest in the LORD and the eternal security that He provides.  We are safe in Him, and nothing can snatch us from His hand.