Unshaken

“Because He is at my right hand,

I shall not be shaken.”

(Psalm 16:8)

Take a look at your right hand. How close is it?

God is that close.

Our family have had a lot to shake us and this verse is a great comfort to me. On my own, I’m like a speck of dust waiting for a hoover, easily lifted, easily shaken.  But we’re not alone. God is unshakeable and he offers to take us by the hand.

Have you placed your hand in his?

Here is total security, stronger than the mighty chains at the harbour that hold great ocean liners steady against the inexorable pull of the tides and the violent crash of the waves. Whatever you face, he is here, so near, to hold you through it.

A few weeks ago, an older lady came up to me at the end of my talk. She was deeply moved and told me that during the quiet at the end, she had suddenly remembered walking down the beach, hand in hand with her father, a memory that she hadn’t thought about for half a century. Widowed a while ago, she had been feeling desperately lonely during that week, but God had shown her that he wanted to take her by the hand just as her father had done.

He wants to do the same with us through calm days and through days when we quake and falter.

He is unshakeable. Our country is being shaken but God is not shaken. Cultures change; he remains the same. Empires rise and fall; he does not. He sees the long-term because he is the long-term.

Because the unshakeable one is at my right hand; I shall not be shaken.

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 With thanks to the wonderful Camilla Field for this photo which you can find on the Mind and Soul website and at www.fieldnote.co.uk