God Holds Us in His Arms

Here’s your spoonful of courage for the day. In the last video, I discussed the fact that we need to hold fast to our confession of hope, but I want to give you a different perspective, and I want to tell you a story about my oldest son, Jacob. He’s now 21 years old, but when he was a toddler he had a very different way of saying or asking for me to hold him. He would say, “Jacob hold dada, Jacob hold dada,” that was his way of wanting me to pick him up and hold him in my arms. Well, in Jacob’s mind he was the one that was doing the holding, he was holding daddy, but the reality was just the reverse. It was his father who was holding him. 

You know spiritually speaking, I think sometimes we have Jacob’s perspective about things, we think that we’re the ones that are holding on to God, and even in the last video I was talking about the fact of the necessity of doing that. But just from a bigger perspective I want to remind you it is God, our heavenly father, who holds us in these chaotic times. 

Let me read to you a passage in Deuteronomy 33:27, it says, “the eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms,” and if you think about this, God, our heavenly father, is our refuge that we can come to him and we can crawl up into his arms. And based upon his unmerited favor towards us, based upon the completed work of Christ and what he has done for us that we cannot do for ourselves, we are now his children. And the fact that he holds us in spite of our inadequacies, in spite of our goof ups, in spite of all of those things, that god loves us as our heavenly father. Isn’t that a great assurance today to know that he’s in it for the long haul in our lives, that he loves us and that his everlasting arms are going to hold us up? 

In the Old Testament, this word is a word called “hesed”, it means that God’s in it for the long haul despite what we do, that God will do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and that’s the best news I can think of. May you fall into his heavenly arms and stay there. 

I’m Dr. Page, the best guy to see on the worst day of your life. Remember, God holds us in His everlasting arms.