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.
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