Read Psalms 121:7&8  The word preserve is an interesting word that appears 3 times in these 2 verses.  When I was a little boy, we usually only went into town once a week on Friday afternoon.  Most of the food that we ate we grew in our garden.  Growing a small garden is fun, relaxing, and good exercise.  But growing a big garden - well now, that is hard work!  Beginning in the middle of the summer those vegetable plants began to produce.  I used to love eating fresh tomatoes and cucumbers right out of the garden.  But soon, that big garden was producing much more than we could eat.  That was when my mother and grandmother began to preserve the food.  They would put the tomatoes, green beans, and corn into jars for canning.  It was a lot of work!  The cucumbers had to be made into jars of sweet and dill pickles.  There was no time to waste.  If those vegetables weren't preserved in the jars right away, they would spoil.  All of those jars were used later in the fall and winter and on into the spring until next year's garden began to produce.  God has promised to preserve us.  He will not let us be spoiled by Satan.  The Lord will keep us from being wasted.  That is if we will let Him.  God does not make us to do anything against our will.  He is loving and kind and wants us to let Him take care of us - to preserve us for all of eternity.  Verse 8 says for evermore.  Isn't God faithful and good?!