IN HIS HANDS

GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS

365 DEVOTIONS FROM OUR DAILY BREAD

In His Hands

Read:  Isaiah 40:25-31

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.  He counts the

number of the stars; He calls them all by name.  Psalm 147:3-4

How big is the cosmos?  Galaxies upon galaxies stretch into space farther than we can comprehend.

Two Harvard astronomers have discovered a “great wall” of galaxies that they estimate to be 500 million light-years long, 200 million light-years wide, and 15 million light-years thick.  (One light-year is 5.88 trillion miles.)  Those numbers are mind-boggling.

Here’s something even more amazing.  God created all of those galaxies and sustains everything that exists by His powerful hands.  Yet that same mighty God, the one and only God, uses those hands to gently touch the lives of suffering men and women.

In Psalm 147:3-4 we read that the Lord not only knows all the stars by name, but He also “heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”  That truth is echoed in Isaiah 40:26-31, which states that the all-powerful Creator is the One who renews the strength of those who rely on Him.  The God of the galaxies is the Great Physician who lovingly minsters to our needs.  What a contrast-and what a comfort!

Regardless of how heavy your burdens, how tangled your problems, or how serious your diseases, the God of the galaxies has power enough to meet all your needs-and measureless power to spare.  Put your problems in His hands.  VCG

Those who see God’s hand in everything can leave everything 

in God’s hands.