The Verse
 

But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, “You are my God.” My times are in your hand.

~Psalm 31:14-15a

The Thought
 

Our times are in God’s hands. Every moment of every day is handed down to us from our sovereign Heavenly Father. What sweet comfort there is in this wonderful truth, that we are searched and known by our Savior. He knows “when I sit and when I rise up” and foreknows and ordains all my days for His glory and my good. “Such knowledge is to wonderful for me;” how good is our God!

All our times are in His hand. Every time of gladness is in His gracious hand; and every time of sorrow passes through His hand of protection and accomplishes the purpose for which He granted it. Every time of peace is an opportunity to rest in His grasp, and every time of turmoil is an opportunity to hold on to the One holding us. Every moment of happiness, and every season of grief- all come to us, as all good things do, from our Father. Our times are in His hand.

The Prayer
 

Heavenly Father, Thank you for Your sweet providential protection. Thank you for the comfort it is to know that my times are in Your hands, and that nothing can ever come to me that You have not first ordained. I love the sweet truth that You are both sovereign and good, and that You have promised to use both joy and sorrow in Your quest to make me more like Your Son. Give me faith to trust all Your good work, and to rest in the realization that my times are in Your hand.