“For I, the Lord your God will hold your right hand, Saying to you, ‘Fear not, I will help you.’” Isaiah 41:13 (NKJV)
As a child, my hand was held for everything. It was held to eat, walk across the road, write, and more. But as I got older, I felt more independent and didn’t need so much handholding. This is the same for anyone raised in a home.
I remember a day when I was headed for school in my early teenage years. My mom wanted to cross the road holding my hand. I gently removed my hand from her grip and walked across myself. She just laughed, saying I was now a big boy.
We still wear our big boy or big girl pants when dealing with God. We refuse to be handheld because we believe we’re independent enough to figure everything out. But we were never supposed to be independent of God. Sin made it so.
My right hand is important to me because I do almost everything with it. But what do you think happens when it is held by someone else? I become almost helpless because everything that makes up my independence is in the hands of someone else.
That’s the idea. God holding our hand is a commitment on His part to be the help that we can’t give to ourselves.
How can we willingly surrender our independence to God so He can guide our work?
Just give him your right hand. “Right hand” isn’t literal because you could be a leftie. It simply means dropping all self-sufficiency at His feet.
It’s a call for us to give Him the skills, gifts, knowledge, and experience that we think are all we need to be successful so that He can become our right hand. He becomes our sustainer.
The idea that we can be successful on our own was born from the separation we experienced due to sin. We no longer want to be held accountable, so we hide instead of opening our hearts.
It’s time to change that. When God becomes our right hand, we have access to the strength of His entire being. So, slip your hand into His today and let Him guide you as you carry out basic activities exceptionally well.
“Today, I decide to allow God to hold my hand through all I do.”
As a child learning to write, your hand wobbles, causing you to make funny strokes. When a parent holds your hand, the output is close to perfect. That’s the same effect we get when God holds us.
We’re all still figuring out life. So, let’s allow God, who has figured out all things, to help us make perfect strokes every day.
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