God is in Control

Dear Readers around the world! This morning my heart is heavy for the people of Haiti whom are suffering badly due to the massive earthquake. I have been in contact with people in the hardest hit city in the last year or two, so my prayers are for them, their families, and all the other suffering people. May God grant that country help from others, and a peace and strength to go through the very difficult days ahead.

Since I had these thoughts, when I found this article written by one of our Pastors, Joel Kandoll from the state of Washington, I thought it was fitting for today!

May God Bless your week. John


I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven
and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that
keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel
shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper: the
Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite
thee by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve
thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall
preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth,
and even for evermore. Psalm 121:1-8

The Psalmist here describes the preserving hand of the
Lord as we travel through this life. Often as we experience
trials and afflictions we need to be comforted; we need to be
once again assured with the many promises found in His Holy
Word. Our natural tendency may be to struggle alone against
those things which may come our way, but how good it is if we
recognize that we have a great true Friend in the Lord Jesus
Christ! And that as Jesus lives in our hearts by faith we also
may be true friends to one another by assuring one another of
the Lord’s deliverance unto salvation.

Here in this psalm we are taught to look unto the Lord, the Creator,
the One who has made all things, even as it is recorded in Hebrews 11:3: Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

God has created all things by the power of His Word, and He continues to hold all things in His hand. We need not fear that He has lost control, that He is no longer able to rule all things; and we need not fear that He is not able to help us or sustain us. God is an eternal being and, as stated in this psalm, He does not slumber or sleep; He does not become tired or weary as we do in our natural bodies.

As age advances upon us, we find that the activities that were so easy when we were younger now seem to take so much effort, and some activities we find we are even unable to do anymore. This is not so with the Lord our God; He is unchanging, the same yesterday, today and forever.

Let us look unto the Lord always for the preservation of our souls, as He shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.


Pastor Joel Kandoll
Castle Rock, Washington