IN HIS HANDS

If you are a born-again believer in Jesus Christ, and are having trouble going to sleep at night; filled with anxiety over events around you, let’s think it through. Will your staying awake worrying actually fix the problem? You have a Savior who wants to help you with all your trials, just waiting for you to relax and turn it all over to Him.

I picture it like this: A mother sits in a rocking chair holding her little one and rocks her baby to sleep. The baby has no worries, perhaps just a little discomfort, but in a short time the baby is asleep. That’s how we should be as believers in the Great God who made the universe and all that is in it for the habitation of man on this magnificent planet we call earth.

What do we have to worry about? The Bible says of God, “He gives his beloved sleep.” What qualifies us as His beloved? Accepting Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.

An elderly black lady, a long time ago, put it like this: “Worry is like sitting in a rocking chair. There’s lots of agitation, but you don’t get nowhere.”

Have you ever heard Allison Crouse’s song “In the palm of His hand?” Besides making even grown men cry, it shows where we should always be, in God’s hand. He is our heavenly Father and he loves us much-much more than anyone else can.

Why fret and worry over things that go on about us, over which we have little or no control, when we can (and are told to in the Bible) cast all our cares upon Jesus, for He cares for us.

Have a blessed life “in His hands.”

J. Hartline