“… neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.” John 10:28
Henry Cooke once said, ‘Life happens to us when you are busy making other plans.’ We can be so busy, so involved in the things we have set our minds and hearts on to do, that sometimes we get a wakeup call when we realise five, ten, twenty or even thirty years have rolled by with us barely noticing. We can be so distracted by what we have set our priorities on that that wakeup call shocks us out of our apathy.
When that happens, it is so easy to blame anybody and everybody who has been crying out for our attention – and we can be angry and frustrated at them for distracting us from our own goals and plans. We can feel they have robbed us of our time and stolen our very lives from us.
John 10:27-29 says, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.” This reassures us that while it is right and proper that we set Yehovah-centred priorities in our lives, Yehovah Himself will never allow either us, or anyone else, to rob us of all He wishes and plans to achieve through our lives. Not only can we rest assured that we are held secure in His everlasting arms, the times and seasons of our lives are safe and secure in His control. He will accomplish all He has planned and has in store for us to be and to do in and through Him. Rest secure today, knowing His plans and purposes will be fulfilled in your life.