Jude 1:24 “To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy—”
In my Public Speaking classes I like to show the Allstate commercial, The Recession That Made Us Great, to demonstrate the power of the pause. The narrator, Dennis Haysbert, voices over pictures showing how the past recession taught us “things are not as important as the future we’re building with those we love.” Each poignant pause gives the viewer time to reflect on the value of relationships, the importance of “making do” with what we have, and of course the trustworthiness of Allstate Insurance to be there, no matter what the crisis. By the time we get to the ending tagline, “You’re in good hands,” I’m ready to sell the farm and beg an Allstate agent to let me in!
Do you know as a child of God there is never a moment we are not in good hands? Hands, the scripture says, that are able to keep us from stumbling, hands that can turn our spiritual recessions into wells of life, hands that lead us on a path of purity and joy. It’s knowing we are not only in the hands of a sovereign God, but in the hands of a good sovereign God that gives us the confidence we need to move through whatever life hurls our way.
Jude displayed this confidence when he wrote to the early church. He warned them of how there would be people who would ridicule them for their moral stances. They would try to bring division in the body by enticing them to rely more on themselves than the Holy Spirit. Filled with self-interest, greed and discontentment, they hoped to drag as many people as they could into their wake of rebellion. Sound familiar? Such people have been around since before Sodom and Gomorrah and will continue to exist until the last battle recorded in Revelation 20.
But have no fear. We will not fall into their hands of destruction if we remain firmly fixed in the good hands of “the only God our Savior” to whom belongs all “glory, majesty, power and authority” (v. 27). After all, He’s got the whole world in His hands. That includes you and me, sister; you and me brother.
Yes, we’re in good hands.