In gratitude, a million and one times this past year I’ve proclaimed God’s hands are carrying me and mine. And, oh so true this is!!! However, all my faithful shouts regarding God’s hands led to silent whispers awakening me, also, to the presence and power of God’s heart.
In truth, God’s hands don’t carry us because they are strong. God’s hands carry us because His HEART loves us. Pondering this thought opened my soul to deep awareness that while God’s power is exhibited in His hands, it is born in His HEART. Simply spoken, God doesn’t carry us because He is strong. God carries us because He loves us. Maybe, it’s time for the scale of my being to stop, inadvertently, calculating God in power mode and start, consciously, measuring God in love.
Unquestionably, God is powerful enough to carry each, and all, of us (individually or collectively) through every single one of our many trials and tribulations. All Christians know and believe this as both Biblical truth and experienced fact. Haven’t ever met a Christian who can’t testify to a time when God’s hands were all they had to cling to and that God’s hands were, indeed, enough to carry and sustain them. Still, I wonder if others, like me, saw God’s strength and power as the source of fuel behind God holding us in the palm of His hand, instead of God’s love as the catalyst.
We short change God when we fail to understand all He does comes from His heart and not His brawn. Prime example is God’s strength to let His Son die for our sins came not from His being supremely powerful but from His unsurpassable love –love for us, His sinful children. Maybe, if we all began seeing Our Heavenly Father in the light of His HEART’s love powering the way to break through darkness, our land would begin to recognize enduring strength comes from open love-filled hearts, not the brute force of clenched fists. “Let all you do be done in love.” 1 Corinthians 16:14 (ESV)
Uplifted in a Broken Down World 