Mid-day vespers
Bumping all the prayers to the Man at the top.
This is the Psalm I go to when I need the comfort of knowing the Lord is my Keeper and that he is watching over me and America. We have had some bad news today in our local politics ... a very sordid affair resulting in a suicide. This situation has many common denominators with the vicious goings on in the FL primary & nationally. How sick our country is, how bold is the devil and how he must be laughing when he sees people stooping to such depths and joining him in wickedness. And so, today, I need the reassurance in this Psalm .... and many in the country probably do as well.
Psalm 121
1I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
3He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
4Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
6The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
7The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
8The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.