God's Tug

In Whose Hands?    Monday, March 14, 2011

²⁷ My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸ I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one. John 10:27-29 NIV (emphasis mine)

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.

Galatians 2:20 NIV

Today when I was doing my meditations, reading today’s lesson from Charles Stanley’s In Touch magazine, the lesson was in John, but a different verse. I felt pulled over a few pages back to the verse in John above and then to Galatians. Those two verses were so difficult for me to remember, not only the verses themselves, but where they were in the New Testament. Yet, they have become such bedrock verses in my heart and soul. I have been through all kinds of challenges and difficulties in my life (and still am) and I survived and made it to the other side. These verses kept coming back to me – again and again. Never once, even in times of fearing others, did I ever feel I was alone.

I feel such chills going up and down me, because I have such a powerful ally in my corner. In whose hand am I? I’m in the hands of God, my Father, and in the hands of Jesus, my Saviour; they are one.

Blessings,

Michelle Rose