All Things Hold Together

 

“He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”

—Colossians 1:17

God has gifted some people with the ability to put things together well and to even maintain them in proper working order. For me, things rarely work as I envision them. And, they certainly would not hold together through years of use and misuse.

Do you ever wonder how God keeps the runners’ legs from falling off in an Olympic race? Or, how He keeps a person’s heart from exploding when he or she gets overly excited? What about the way He can keep a child’s “feet on the ground” at Christmas time?

The Scripture verse above tells us that not only does God create everything, He also holds all things together!

I used to teach the song, “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” at this time every year. I did so because history tells us that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. loved this particular spiritual. The song also certainly touches on the sovereign power of our God in holding everything in our world together.

Sometimes it feels like our personal “worlds” will surely blow apart. In response to such feelings, God speaks through the Psalmist Asaph in Psalm 75:3 and tells us:

“When the earth and all its people quake, it is I who hold its pillars firm.”

Ahh! What an assurance that verse brings. We can likewise say:

“When my world quakes, it is God who holds its pillars firm.”

We should say that sentence over and over until we realize that the Sovereign Lord holds us in His hands! Because He does so, we will not fall apart.