Dr. Rebekah McCloud

My father had big hands. They were working man’s hands. They were calloused and permanently stained from dirt and oil. But how I relished the touch of those big hands. When we were kids, he would put his hand on top of our heads and his fingers would cover our faces. We felt safe and secure in those big hands. Those big hands were a comfort to us.  We knew there was no good thing those big hands would deny us.

So, should it be with our heavenly father. We can trust in the Lord. He is omnipresent, all powerful, our strong tower, our Rose of Sharon, our comforter, our provider, our sun and our shield. He is the great I Am, the alpha and the omega, God is… you fill in the blank. Amen.

Colossians 1:17 says, “He is before all things and in him all things hold together.” He has big hands, so big that the song says he has the whole world in his hands. That includes you and me. In 2020, will we trust that God’s got us in his big hands? Will we trust that the Lord will give us grace and mercy and no good thing will he withhold from those who walk uprightly. Will we trust him?

The Bible says God know all. Hebrews 4:13 says in part, “Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight.” He knows all things and his big hands can do all things. Jeremiah 32:27 says, “I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is there anything too hard for me?” Job gave testimony to this fact. In Job 42:2 he said, “I know that you can do all things, no purpose of yours can be thwarted.” God’s word will stand and nothing is too hard for him. The Bible is filled with stories about God’s wonder working power. There are stories about him bringing his people through, about him performing miracles, and about him making a way out what seemed like no way. But God, eyes have not seen, nor ears heard…Amen.

The North Carolina Community Choir sings a song that says,

“Whatever you need is in God’s hands.

The promises of God are yes and Amen.

He holds the world in the palm of his hand.

Whatever you need is in God’s hands.”

Stewards, you can believe that you’re in good hands; not in Allstate’s hands, but in G-O-D’s big, capable hands. All things belong to the Lord. Psalms 95:4 says, “In his hands are the depths of the earth and the mountain peaks belong to him.” What about you and me?

If God is before all thing, knows all things, can do all things, and all thing belong to him, we must put all things into God’s big hands. Amen. The Browders sing a song that says,

“God is more than able.

We can’t, but he can.

Each need he will handle.

Just put it into God’s hands.”

This year has already started with calamity. There have been earthquakes, wild fires, political unrest, rumors of war, and lives have been lost. These things are indeed troublesome and sorrowful. But I want to encourage us all to remember that in 2020, the year of perfect vision, we must focus on trusting in God, taking things to him, putting them into his big hands and leaving them there. There’s nothing too hard for our God and nothing too big for his big hands. Amen.