“He will not let your foot slip—
he who watches over you will not slumber…” (Psalm 121:3)
Little slip-ups might happen more when we’re sleepy. We’re more likely to stumble, trip, and bump into things physically.
But maybe you’re not especially clumsy when you’re tired. Maybe you’re more likely to slip up by forgetting stuff or misremembering it. Or maybe things you’d normally process first and phrase more kindly or patiently come out wrong.
In poetic form, God not letting your foot slip is a way of saying He’ll keep you on the path you are meant to be on. He won’t let you slip up in a way that’s past redemption.
God keeps you and I steady, moving us forward in Him even when we feel we’re slipping up too much to keep going in godly confidence.
If and when we slip up, God’s grace will be enough to keep us on the path: abiding in Christ. We won’t be separated from His love. We won’t become so weary that we give up permanently, and cease to bear fruit. He won’t waste what might feel to us like aimless wandering – He’ll make a way for us to worship Him wherever we are now and wherever He is leading us.
Even when we feel like our walk of faith is more like stumbling beside our Savior, He’ll hold us steadily up.
How have you slipped up recently? Have you responded to God’s grace in that?
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