Right Words at the Right Time

We had a scare this weekend at Chad's football game. He has gone almost 6 years without getting hurt playing football, until this last game. A play didn't go the right way and he got taken down with a helmet to the knee, his kicking leg. He was scared, we could see it in his face. He looked up in the stands and wanted Rich to come down to the sideline, that is not like him at all. His knee swelled up and looked like he may have done some real damage. All kinds of thoughts went through my mind like this may be it, the thing that happens to so many kids who play sports, one injury ends it all, so I can only imagine what Chad was going through. I opened my Bible Saturday night to Psalms because I have been studying David, one of Beth Moore's Bible study series, and felt like I could be encouraged by some of David's thoughts. I opened to
Psalm 121 and was so encouraged by these verses:
He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.
4He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
5The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade at your right hand.
6The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
7The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.
8The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time on and for evermore.
The best part of spending time in God's Word is when I feel like He is speaking directly to me. I was so encouraged by these words. We are praising the Lord that the swelling is almost completely gone and he may actually be able to play Friday night! I am so glad God is the keeper of our lives.