God promises to protect, guard and watch over us.  God is our keeper.  There is a story that has been told of a missionary in North Africa, named Frederick Nolan.  Frederick was fleeing persecution from his enemies.  He was exhausted so he went into a small cave to rest and hide from his pursuers.  When Frederick entered the cave, a spider began to weave a web across the mouth of the cave.  Frederick could hear his persecutors close by and he thought for sure they were going to find him in the cave and kill him.  But to his surprise, his pursuers did not enter the cave.  On seeing the unbroken web across the mouth of the cave, they figured he was not there and continued on their hot pursuit.  God protected Frederick from his enemies that day.  God is our keeper.

God is faithful.  He is a God who keeps His Word.  He is a covenant keeping God.  Deuteronomy 7:9 says, " Know therefore that the LORD your GOD is GOD; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments," (NIV).  To be faithful means to be loyal, constant, true, devoted.  God does not change.  He does not change in His character, His love, kindness, fairness or in fulfilling His promises to us.  God is immutable.

In Genesis 20, Abraham introduced Sarah, his wife of many years as his sister.  He had moved to the region of the Negev, however the people who resided there were not God fearing.  Instead of Abraham asking God to protect him and his wife, he took matters into his own hands and decided to pretend that he and Sarah were not married.  This led to…

In Genesis 4, Cain asked God, "Am I my brother's keeper?" Cain had murdered his bother Abel and God had asked him where his brother was.  Now the reason Cain asked God the question was not that he didn't know the answer to where his brother was.  The reason he questioned God was because he knew that he was responsible for his brother's death.  Cain questioned God because he was trying to separate himself from not only his brother's life, but also his brother's death.  Cain was Abel's keeper and he had failed to keep his bother.  He failed to love, to guard and to protect his bother.  God asks us today, "Are you and I our brother's keeper?