28 November

Today's the day when in 1990 Margaret Thatcher tendered her resignation as Prime Minister. She made her last speech from the steps of Number 10 Downing Street, saying, "We're leaving Downing Street for the last time after eleven-and-a-half wonderful years and we're happy to leave the UK in a very much better state than when we came here." Cameras then filmed her tearful departure from her official residence, as the premiership of Britain's first female leader - and the longest since 1827 – came to an end.

You probably won't have the honour of entering and leaving Downing Street during your career, but whatever comings and goings there are in your life you can be sure that God is with you through them all. And even in the final going out from this life into the next. This is how Psalm 121 expresses God’s promise to us:

The LORD watches over you,
the LORD is your shade at your right hand;
the sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.
The LORD will keep you from all harm,
he will watch over your life;
the LORD will watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore.