God's care for His People!

I am grateful for the promises of God which are yea and amen for us, who make the Lord our trust.
 I don't think it is emphasized enough the fact and parallel that God makes between Abraham and the Church of Christ.  We tend to think that we can overcome with just ourselves and our great Lord and King.   We think that His cherishing is to us, individually and it is.  But, it is to us, in and through His Holy Church.  He makes promises to us, in so much that we are participants of the means of Grace, in relation to His Church.  It is all over the Scripture, but very minimized by our pagan and individualistic minds. 
Zeus may be a god of the individual, but the True and Living God promises to the individual through the Church.  He will build His Church and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it.  The gates of Hell may dominate anyone of us, as we individually take on the forces, if we are foolish enough to think ourselves a private entity.  When we divorce ourselves from the true doctrines of God's Church we are divorcing ourselves from God's promises.  He promises the grafting in of the gentiles, through His Church and then the cherishing that happens in Psalm 121 are ours.