Your Hand
Shall Hold Me Fast
O LORD, you have searched me and known
me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from
far away. You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all
my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, O LORD, you know it completely.
You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is
too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it.
Where can I go from your spirit? Or
where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I
make my bed in Sheol, your are
there. If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of
the sea, even there your hand shall hold me fast. If I
say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become
night,” even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the
day, for darkness is as light to you.
God is always there, and the
comforting thought is that He is always there for us as well.
No matter what happens to us, we have
the assurance that He is our refuge and our strength. Open your eyes and your
heart. He is there.
We can face
any fear
when we know the
Lord is near.
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