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Devotional Reading
for:
7/3/2009
Associated
Scripture Readings:
Isaiah 42:5-9
Psalm 63
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| I am the Lord; I have
called you in righteousness;
I will take you by
the hand and keep you.
Isaiah 42:6 |
Handheld DVD players, PCs,
TVs, MP3 players, GPS
units—do you ever wonder
how humanity survived without holding something with
initials in our hands? We can recreate, communicate, calculate,
and navigate, and it’s all handheld. What could be
better?
How about being handheld by God? In our Baptism,
God “called [us] in righteousness.” God applied the perfect
life, death, and resurrection of Jesus to us, forgave our sins,
and declared us to be brand new. God’s Spirit now walks
beside us and holds us by the hand, not just as a friend,
but as our God. He does not ask us to hold on to Him. He
holds on to us. In our weakness, He gives strength. In our
faithlessness, He remains faithful.
Imagine a father on a walk with his toddler in the
woods. The boy’s feeble grasp on Dad’s fingers provides
little security against rough terrain. But when Dad enfolds
that little hand and wrist in his hand, there is security,
no matter how rough things get. Faith does not hold on
to God. It trusts that God holds on to us. We can recreate,
communicate, calculate, and
navigate our way through life,
and it’s all handheld by God.
What could be better? |
Jesus, thank You for Your
faithful, strong, nail-scarred
hands that hold us. Amen. |
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