Today, we live in a world that is angry, mad,
frustrated; full of corruption, crime, lack of love, a world of
confusion, a world that has been turned upside down; and very little
security, yet the Allstate Insurance company says: you're in good
hands with them.
In II Samuel chapter 23, David had sinned in
numbering the people and he had three choices for his punishment.
Mankind, nature, and the hand of God. Gad, the prophet, said, flee
three months from the enemy, three days of pestilence. David said
let us fall now into the hand of the Lord and let me not fall into
the hand of man. (II Samuel 24:12-14).
In the text, Jesus made a security claim for the
believer. He said, "I give them eternal life, and they shall never
perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who gave
them to me, is greater than all, no one can snatch them out of my
Father's hand" (John 10:28-29).
In this world of guns, violence, and gangs, we all
need security. We are in the hands of God for many reasons. Many in
today’s world have refused to be in God's hand. They prefer to be
outside of the arch of safety. Many, during the days of Noah refused
God's safety; but the rain came! It’s a rebellious world and there
are conditions that are metaphorically saying it’s raining. Floods,
fires, tornados, storms, earthquakes and nations against nations.
Like rebellious sheep, people have looked to the mirage of greener
pastures and have strayed only to find that they are alienated from
God, abandoned to the wrong cause.
When God puts you in His hand, you are there for a
purpose. We do not enter into a relationship with God to sit and
wait for Judgement Day. God desires that the saved work in His
service. We are rescued from the bitter drugs of life to be used by
God. When Elisha recued the axe-head from the watery grave, it was
to be useful. O Praise His Holy Name!
When we put our lives into God's hands, He uses us
for His service. After we open our lives to God in faith, our
security depends on God almighty. Paul said, "For I know what I have
believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have
committed unto Him, against that Day." (II Timothy 1:12). The
security of the believer is not so you can do what you want to do;
the security of the believer is not for you to practice sinful ways.
In God's hands you are growing in grace. You will
experience growth. The Lord changes a person and that person moves
on to becoming a servant in God's hand. Paul said, "Who shall
separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress,
or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it
is written, for thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are
accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we
are more than conquerors through Him that loved us, For I am
persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to
separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Romans 8:35-39)
God's hands are loving hands, powerful hands, caring
hands, blessed hands, hands that won't let go. It was those hands
that bless babies, touch lives; those hands that were nailed to a
Roman tree for your sins and the world’s sins. O' what hands! Those
hands brought Israel out of Egypt. Hands are very important. It was
Moses’ hand that lifted up the rod at the Red Sea and waters parted
and dammed up as a wall on both sides in a fixed position and stayed
all night so the East wind could blow across and dry up the bed of
the Red Sea. Hands are very important. Jesus told Thomas reach
hither thy hand and touch my wounded side. You can't work with no
hands.
Today, Jesus is seated at the right of His Father
interceding for you and I. Today, you can be in those hands. Just
accept Jesus as your personal Savior. Which? In the hands of man,
hands of nature or hands of God!
Pastor, Rev. Dr. Cullian W. Hill