My Times Are in Your Hands

My Times Are in Your Hands

How safe and reassuring life becomes when we believe in God’s guidance and omnipotence. We pass through changing times from childhood until we die. How good it is to be fully surrendered into the hands of the Almighty during our appointed times. His eyes watch over us with goodness and care, and nothing happens by accident. “As for God, His way is perfect . . . .” Ps. 18:30.

It is good to know that our life is very brief and very precious. The days pass by, and we cannot re-live one of them. Therefore it is wise to view everything we say and do in the light of eternity. If our times are in God’s mighty hand, then we will be nourished and molded by all the necessary chastisement and comfort. Everything has been weighed on His scales. He makes the temptation and the way of escape so we can bear it. 1 Cor. 10:13. If we come out of God’s hands during our times, we are thrown hither and thither by our evil desires, and life can be grievous for the others and for us. In these days, as never before, we can see the terrible results of pursuing evil desires.

“The Lord will give strength to His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace.” Ps. 29:11.

The hand of the Lord offers strength and peace to us, but Satan offers the people weakness and strife with his outstretched hand. They are too weak to liberate themselves from sin’s powerful bonds and chains. “‘There is no peace,’ says the Lord, ‘for the wicked.’” Isa. 48:22.

Blessed are all those who can say to our Father in heaven, “My times are in Your hands.” Jesus said to His disciples, who had forsaken everything to follow Him, “And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matt. 28:20.

The disciples didn’t just have good days; they entered into God’s kingdom through much tribulation. They experienced changing times, but their love for their Lord and Master constrained them to gather by the Father’s throne for all eternity.

Paul writes in Philippians 4:12-13: “I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” He experienced God’s power and peace in everything, and he could exhort, “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!”

It was Paul’s desire that no one should be able to blame his ministry in any way, and he writes in 2 Corinthians 6:4-10: “But in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings; by purity, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.” This tremendous testimony of Paul has also been a great comfort and joy to the saints who have suffered for their faith throughout the ages in prison and slave camps. Even in our days thousands are imprisoned, suffering for their faith. They can draw comfort from the fact that Paul became rich and happy in his sufferings, and that he could make others rich and happy. He was perfectly at rest in the Lord’s hands—and that is where we should be, too, during all these changing times between evil and good.