Big Hands

Weathering a storm, whether self-inflicted or no fault of your own, can be so difficult and overwhelming.  Your world crashes around you and there just seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel. If there is a light at the end of the tunnel, it may seem like it's the train that's getting ready to run you over.

God never promised us that bad times would not come.  He has never promised us a life free or struggles or pain.  What He has promised is a life of safety and peace in His big, loving, strong, very capable hands. He has promised us that whatever we face, He holds us tightly in His sweet embrace to allow for us to be rescued at the right time.

"Though they stumble, they will never fall, for the Lord holds them by the hand." Psalms 37:24 (NLT) God  allows us to stumble.  I have found that through the stumbling, we have the opportunity to draw closer to Him.  Sometimes we get complacent when everything is going well.  We begin to lose touch with God and the fact that He wants us to need Him. 

Yesterday, as I drove to church, I was listening to my Ipod.  Natalie Grant's song, "Held" came on.  I have never really thought much about the words of that song because I couldn't really understand what she was saying or what any of it meant.  But yesterday...I understood every word and it made perfect sense.  It is a beautiful song.

I'm not going to quote the entire song but here is the chorus:
"This is what it means to be held
How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive
This is what it is to be loved
And to know that the promise was
When everything fell we'd be held"
Is that not the most beautiful  chorus you have ever read?!?! I have, finally, felt this song and it has become a life lesson, a motto, a testimony.  I just got chills.

When our "sacred" is torn away, through whatever trauma you might have experienced in your life, God holds your hand and brings you through to the other side.  He gives you strength to survive.  He holds you when everything falls or seems to crash around you. 

The best part of all of this "being held" stuff is that God holds you no matter what you are going through.  He wants to hold you in the good, the bad and the ugly.  We, sometimes, forget He is there when things are good but He doesn't forget us.  I have heard stories of parents forgetting their children and accidentally leaving them at school or whatever, but God is perfect and never forgets His children.

Take a listen to the song "Held".  Let your mind hear the words and your heart feel them.  Let God hold you-  There is an amazing peace that comes with it.