Numbers 6:24 – “The LORD Bless you and KEEP you…”

As I read, prayed, and pondered the Word of God today and through the night, something I have taught many times filled my thoughts: the Aaronic Blessing of Numbers 6.  One dimension of that captured my consciousness: being KEPT!

The covenant person who is walking in Covenant with God has an astounding promise. We live in an alien world as believers.   This world is not our home.   We are sojourners passing through on our way to our eternal home.   We live in a hostile world where darkness surrounds us.   Demonic forces are poised to attack, hinder, and do us harm.   In a sense, we are “Cocooned in hostility.”   But God has covenanted with us to keep us.    Psalms 23 and Psalm 91 are reminders of that promise.

Psalm 121:1-3 – “I look up toward the hills.  From whence does my help come?  2 My help comes from the LORD, the Creator of Heaven and Earth.  3 May He not allow your foot to slip.  May your protector not sleep.”

Even when we are asleep, God watches over us and keeps us.  In the remaining portion of that Psalm, we see that we are KEPT in our “innermost person,” which extends to the “outermost extension” of who we are.

Remember, we are people of a Better Covenant.   In Zechariah 2:8, we read something interesting and powerful.  “He who touched you touches the apple of My (God’s) eye.”  Think about that in the natural for a powerful revelation.   If something touches the eye, it causes the rest of the body to focus on the eye.  If you scratch your arm, leg, face, back, or any area of the body, you keep going, BUT scratch the eye, and everything comes to a grinding halt.   Here, God is telling us that He is our protector and protection.

Too bad we don’t always live like we believe that!   Imagine knowing that if anyone or anything touches or attacks you as a child of Covenant, heaven responds!  That is Covenant.  That is being KEPT.

Psalm 23: The LORD is my shepherd.  The shepherd would position himself between the sheep and danger, and the predator or thief had to go through the shepherd to get to the sheep.  The LORD is our shepherd.  We are KEPT!  David, a shepherd, wrote that and said, “Because God is my shepherd, how can I even imagine being in want or lack?  I am KEPT!”

Today, we need to believe and embrace God’s promise and live fearless lives, knowing He is keeping us.  He is our protector, our provision, and our peace.

How do we have this?   We believe it is true!   We yield fully to God.  We are not spectators watching life from the stands; we are on the field, clothed in Him; KEPT!   Let’s believe it, receive it, and live in it!  No weapon or tongue can prevail, though all hell assail heaven’s grace will never fail.

May you always live with a sense of being kept by God!   In that Peace, live each day fully and victoriously!