I’m a Keeper!

by | Mar 29, 2016 | Uncategorized

That’s a simile. If I’m a fish, it means that I’m big enough to lawfully keep to eat for tonight’s dinner. If I’m a wife, it means that I’m doing a good job loving and preserving my husband, and he knows it. If I’m a child of God, it means I’m safe and protected by Christ who stays awake to guard me from danger, provides me with a place to rest, and gives me life forevermore. How do I know this is true? God wrote a Song declaring to me and to the world that “I’m a keeper!” In fact, He’s written so many Songs that they’re numbered and kept in a book where I can read them any time I forget He’s close by me. It’s like having a radio station where you only listen to the songs you want to hear. That’s a metaphor. The original Hebrew word God used is natsar (naw-tsar) which means to watch, guard, observe, preserve, protect, keep, etc.  You get the idea!  In English, Mr. Webster says nearly the same thing about the word, KEEP.  I like being a keeper; it’s reassuring.  Except that when you add -er to KEEP, then you change it from a verb to a noun.  Maybe I should have entitled this blog, “I’m kept.”  Except, it sounds awkward to my Midwestern ears so I’ll stick with being a keeper. The problem is that while I had my dictionary open I learned that a KEEP-er has responsibilities.  A keeper guards, watches, assumes responsibility for another; it’s a person who maintains, preserves, or conserves.  That is, of course, God’s...