OUR DAILY BREAD : A SAFE PAIR OF HANDS

[cimi]

March 13
Saturday


A SAFE PAIR
OF HANDS

READ:
Psalm 138
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Your right hand will
save me.
__Psalm 138:7
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Edwin van der Sar, goalkeeper for the Manchester United soccer team, had a "safe" pair of hands. He kept the ball from entering his team's goal for 1,302 minutes, a world record in one season! That means that for almost 15 games of 90 minutes each, no one was able to score even one goal against his team while he was guarding the goalposts. But one goal by an opposing team in March 2009 ended his record.

The psalmist David found comfort in the safest pair of hands--God's hands. He wrote of God's protection in Psalm 138, "You will stretch out Your hand...and Your right hand will save me" (v.7). Like David, we can look to God's safe hands to keep us from spiritual danger and defeat.

Another assurance from God's Word for followers of Christ is Jude 1:24-25: "Now to Him who is able to keep your from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen." That doesn't mean we'll never stumble. But it does mean we won't stumble so badly that God cannot pick us up.

God's safe pair of hands can never fail--ever! __C.P.Hia
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``````````````````From Him, who loves me now so well,````````````
````````````````````What power my soul can sever?``````````````
``````````````````Shall life or death, or earth or hell?``````````````
````````````````````No--I am His forever. __Small```````````````
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No place is more secure than to be in God's hands.

*************Today's Bible Reading __ Psalm 138*****************

1 I will praise You with my
whole heart; before the
gods I will sing praises to
You. 2 I will worship toward
Your holy temple, and
praise Your name for Your
lovingkindness and Your
truth; for You have
magnified Your word above
all Your name. 3 In the day
when I cried out, You
answered me, and made me
bold with strength in my
soul.

4 All the kings of the earth
shall praise You, O LORD,
when they hear the words
of Your mouth. 5 Yes, they
shall sing of the ways of the
LORD, for great is the glory
of the LORD. 6 Though the
LORD is on high, yet He
regards the lowly; but the
proud He knows from afar.

7 Though I walk in the
midst of trouble, You will
revive me; You will stretch
out Your hand against the
wrath of my enemies, and
Your right hand will save
me. 8 The LORD will perfect
that which concerns me;
Your mercy, O LORD,
endures forever; do not
forsake the works of Your
hands.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Commenting on Psalm 138:2, J. Vernon McGee says: "There is an
old saying that a man is as good as his word. Well, God is as good
as His Word. His character is behind what He has said. 'Thou hast
magnified Thy saying in accordance with all Thy name,' or, 'Thou
hast fulfilled it in such a manner as to bring out all that Thy name
implies.'" __DENNIS FISHER