My Times Are In Your Hands

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Recently it was brought to mind that we are bombarded with places to turn other than God and I too learned the hard way. How free we can be if we just "bow the knee to our one true God".

I was recently reading and found great comfort in Psalm 31:14-15

14 But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, "You are my God."
15 My times are in your hands;
deliver me from my enemies and from those who pursue me.

So if we will simply trust God as all things are in His hands; He will deliver us according to His perfect will.

Charles Spurgeon once gave a sermon on Psalm 31 and had some great insight. He wrote:

"The great truth is this — all that concerns the believer is in the hands of the Almighty God. “My times”, these change and shift; but they change only in accordance with unchanging love, and they shift only according to the purpose of One with whom is no variableness nor shadow of a turning. “My times”, that is to say, my ups and my downs, my health and my sickness, my poverty and my wealth — all those are in the hand of the Lord, who arranges and appoints according to his holy will the length of my days, and the darkness of my nights. Storms and calms vary the seasons at the divine appointment. Whether times are reviving or depressing remains with him who is Lord both of time and of eternity; and we are glad it is so."

I am so glad it is so! God you are my God and may we all trust in you. Our times are in your hands. How comforting is that???