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In The Hand of God

This is a beautiful story  about a child  playing with a vase  his mother had left
on the table for a few moments.  When the mother turned at the sound of her
son crying  she saw  that his hand  was in the vase  and was apparently stuck.
She tried to help him and pulled and pulled until the child cried out in pain. But
the  hand  was  stuck  fast.  How would they get it out?  The  father suggested
breaking  the vase  but it was  quite valuable and the child's hand might be cut
in the process.  Yet he  knew  that  if  all  else  failed  there would be no other
alternative. 

So he said to the boy,  "Now,  let's  make  one more try.  Open your hand and
stretch your fingers out straight,  like I'm doing, and then pull!" "But Dad," said
the boy, "if I do that I'll lose my penny!" 

The boy had a coin  in his hand all the time  and was holding it  securely in his
tight little fist.  And he wasn't  prepared  to open  his hand and lose the penny.
But once he opened his hand it came out of the vase easily.

What are you holding onto so tightly as to hinder your walk with Jesus? 

That vase can be  likened  to the entrance  to the Kingdom of God. It is narrow
yet quite easy to pass in, but first you must “open” your hand to God and allow
earthly things to fall. If we keep our fists closed and hold fast to what we have
and keep it for ourselves, we will be unable to take hold of the Hand of God! 

We  arrived  with nothing  and will depart  the same way…  So we should just
trust Him, open  our hands  to the hand  of God  for us to see great things take
place.

Author Unknown

I believe that this message applies not only to our material possessions but also 
to  other  things  that we have like our jobs, or people that we care for so much 
that we tend to spend more time with them  than we do in  serving God. Letting
go and  moving  on  is such a difficult thing... but if we just learn to trust Him to 
give us  nothing less than  what's  best  for us,  then  we  could  expect  Him  to 
surprise  us! One  of  the best encouragements I received just recently was one 
from  my sister  and I quote  "God will not always  give us  what we want in the 
exact way, place and time that we want it but what He'll give us would be much, 
much better than what we could ever think or pray for." 0=)