Friday, August 04, 2006
"Age to age He stands, and time is in His hands..." I know. I know. It's in your head now. This is a great song by Chris Tomlin called "How Great is Our God". The Parachute Band was doing this song at a concert that I was at last week and a great sense of worship filled the room. I bowed down and worshiped the Lord and heard Him speaking clearly to me. He was saying that the times of my life were in His hands. He had my timing and destiny in His hands, just as He has he held the times of the universe.
Psalms 31:15 says, "My times are in Your hands." So many times when we think of God's overall sovereignty and Him holding "time in His hands" we make it so ethereal and heavenly. While He controls the times of all things, I think we would serve ourselves well to be reminded that our personal destinies are with Him. To have something in your hands means you are in control of holding on to or releasing it.
The Bible has some awesome things to say about the hands of God.
"He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike it's mark." Job 36:32
"The skies declare the work of His hands." Psalms 19:1
"I sing for joy at the work of Your hands" Psalms 92:4
"In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker;" Psalms 95:4-6
"The works of His hands are faithful and just..." Psalms 111:7a
"Jesus put his hands on the man's eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly."
Mark 8:25
These are the hands we are placed in. Jesus placed His life into the hands of His Father. In Luke 23:46 Jesus said" Into Your hands I commit my spirit". These are hands we can and should trust. He has said of us, "They are the shoot I have planted, the work of my hands, for the display of my splendor," in Isaiah 60:21. Be encouraged that you are not only in His hands, but you were formed there and you were formed for the display of His splendor. Your timing and destiny are held by Him and He will release you when your time is right. Sometimes we need to just sit back, and as a friend of mine says, enjoy the ride.
