For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I am the one who helps you.
-Isaiah 41:13
This verse is just one of the many throughout the Bible where God exhorts us to set aside what we see, and to trust that He is at work through the circumstances that, to us, look dire. While the exact number of times God says ‘fear not’ is debated depending on the translation, suffice it to say that there are hundreds of times He says for us to put our trust in His leadership during difficult times.
We just came through Easter. It helps us to have a ‘confident expectation’ of a glorious future to know that the Savior is resurrected. However, we have to remember that, some days in our lives, we are more like the Disciples on Friday night. We call it ‘Good Friday’ but that certainly is not what they thought on that Friday night. It seemed like the end of everything good in their lives.
Keeping the Easter perspective can be easy when we are in worship together. But there are bad things even in our little congregation, as we well know. Hold on to God’s right hand, as this text tells us to do. His right hand is the powerful one, and the one He uses to help us into a glorious future. Today might look like a bad Friday, but Sunday’s coming! Praise God! He is faithful.