The Meyer Minute for January 22, 2014

“Be humbled under the mighty hand of God.” 1 Peter 5:6

Do you ever feel that invisible, heavy hand of God upon you? We attribute our hard times to many things, to other people and unwelcome circumstances, but in some mysterious way God is involved. You can’t escape God, Psalm 139. Whatever immediate thing I may blame, God’s hand is somehow in it, weighing down on me, humbling me.

We reach down our own hands to a small child. Perhaps you hold the child’s hand as you walk, if the child lets you. When you see need to strengthen your hold, to pull the child back, to change direction, to guide the child in the way it should go, your hand gets heavier than the child may like. Is God only our Father when His hand is light upon us? “But we know as children should, that the cross is for our good.”

Father’s hand is not always heavy. He often reaches down and lovingly pats us on the head and one day Father’s hands will pick us up for His hug. “Be humbled under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time.”