In God’s Hands

When I was a kid, there were a couple of bugs that I loved to catch and play with. I loved what we called a “roly-poly” because they would roll themselves up in a little ball when you caught them. The other ones that I loved to catch were wood bees. We knew to be careful and catch the ones with the yellow face, because they didn’t have a stinger! I learned later that those are the males and the females have dark faces and stingers. I’m going to withhold commenting on the females having stingers.

We loved to catch them and hold them and play with them for a while. For the bees, we would use sewing thread to tie them to our hands so they could fly and not get away.

But back to holding them. We would “cup” our hands and put one below and one above and make a little cage for our bugs. We could hold them, but also give them space to move around without us hurting them.

Here’s the lesson in holding bugs.

1 Peter 5:6-7 says, “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may lift you up at the proper time:  Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you.”

Remember the cupped hands? God cups His hands around us: holding us up and protecting us because He cares for us!