“I will uphold thee with the right hand of My righteousness” (Isa 41:10).
Our holding onto the Lord is good, but much more important than that, is the Lord upholding us. A child may hold on to his mother, but his mother’s hold on him makes him feel much safer. Dear reader, you are the beloved child of your heavenly Father. He holds your hand. So you have nothing to fear.
Holding is different from upholding. You may hold a book or a pencil but we uphold or hold up something that is generally feeble and which cannot stand on its own. Beloved ones, we are those weaklings. Without any divine help, we cannot stand upright. If we try to stand on our own we may fall. Our gracious Lord knows our weakness and so He has promised that He will uphold us or hold us up with the right hand of His righteousness.
Since the Lord is holding us up we can boldly say, “Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy” (Jude 24). How blessed a people we are! Though we cannot stand upright on our own, our Lord is holding us up that we may not fall. He is holding us up so that on that glorious Day we will be presented in the presence of His glory with exceeding joy.
“It isn’t that I cling to Him
Or struggle to be blest;
He simply takes my hand in His
And there I let it rest.”
Or struggle to be blest;
He simply takes my hand in His
And there I let it rest.”
– Taken from Morning Manna – Thoughts for Daily Devotion
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