In His hands

HE HOLDS US IN HIS HANDS

The bible is full of encouragement of how God holds us in His hands. We often fret, fume and worry about the inconsequential. Scattered clouds on our horizon become looming portents of disaster. We see neither the rainbows or the rain. No matter what threatens, God has us in His hands, and we are safe.

HOLD PEOPLE LOOSELY

God holds people in His hands. We often assume unnecessary and unrealistic responsibilities that burden us with unachievable hopes we nourish for them and from them.  Similarly, we over react to opposition and hurt people by our disproportionate responses, because we are holding them too tightly in our minds. God is in control of those that oppose us for the wrong reasons. Opposition for the right reasons are opportunities for us to change.

HOLD WORK LOOSELY

We cling to our identities and professions as if they define us completely. We forget that we are first children of God, and then whatever he has allowed us to become, or do. When our work is threatened, we feel personally threatened, forgetting the one who holds it all in His hands anyway.  If we are asked to lay our work down, we have tremendous difficulty severing the ties that bind us to it, since in many ways, we might have personalized our efforts, forgetting that He is the one who gave us the opportunity to work anyway.

All these injuctions are not so that we can become lazy, or irresponsible, disregard those we work with, or become careless in the dispensation of our duties. These things characterize one end of the spectrum that most attention is paid to.  On the contrary, at the other end of the spectrum, work can stealthily climb on to the throne and displace the place that rightfully belongs to our God.