“My Times Are in Thy Hand”

There’s a passage from Psalms that has helped me very often, and I just love it. It goes like this: “My times are in thy hand.” Imagine that! The things that we do, the timing, the scheduling of things, it’s all in God’s hands. That’s so important. There have been times when I have tried to plan it all out myself, and, needless to say, things did not work out very well. Also, it caused me a lot of mental turmoil worrying about it, which is, quite frankly, nothing more than fear.

This helped me very recently. One morning it looked like I had this, that, and every other thing to do, and I was not quite sure what else was going to come up. I started to feel a little anxious about it, but then I remembered that passage from Psalms, “My times are in thy hand.” It helped me to stand up and be firm in my thought that I was going to trust God with the things I did today, and not only that but whatever it is that He had for me to do, I would do for His glory, and He would order them. So instead of being concerned about the future, about what’s going on, I just knew that the One that ordered all things, ordered my steps today one by one.

You know how it says in the Bible, Jesus spoke the word and he calmed the tossing sea? My mentality had been approaching this condition of being like a tossing sea, but the word of God stilled it. I'm so grateful for that.

Now, I don't always know what I have to do each day, but that doesn't bother me, because God knows. When I'm so firm about my times being in His hand, all of a sudden ideas come to me that I really need to take care of, and I don't think I would have remembered them if I was worried about things. So I'm very grateful for God’s word, and the inspiration that goes with it because it makes all things right.