Kept

"Keep me from deceitful ways; be gracious to me through your law." (Psalm 119:29)

Many times after we have gone through a difficult time we stop and thank God for keeping us from danger and harm. We are thankful when we see someone healed or when someone is kept from falling in a time of temptation. We should be thankful and we should not forget to express our gratitude to our Heavenly Father.

However, many of us forget to thank God for keeping us day by day from danger or from illness or from temptation. We take many things for granted and we do not realize that it Christ keeps us in His hand. Many of us enjoy trouble free lives because God has kept us from danger. We should be thankful each day for the good things that He gives us and from the deceitful things that He keeps us from.

It is only through God's grace that we are kept from deceitful ways. There is a great deal of truth in the statement that "expect by the grace of God that would be us" when we see someone fall into sin. God is not only our Saviour but He is also our keeper and He will keep us until He calls us home either through death or the coming of His Son, Jesus Christ.

Earlier in this Psalm the Psalmist says that by hiding God's Word in our hearts our ways will be kept pure. It is through reading and meditating upon the Word of God that we are kept by the Word of God.