Stretched-out Hand

"Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear."  -Isaiah 59:1

I found this delightful plastic statue for $5 at a yard sale, painted it with sand paint, and placed it on a pedestal--another yard sale find.  The little boy's stretched-out hand is rewarded with a gift of the trusting bird.  Lilias Trotter writes of the correlation between God's stretched-out Hand and Moses's:  "These last days have been full of faith lessons ...They have come out of the first few chapter of Exodus, over the rod and the stretched-out hand of Moses.  The linking of the stretching out of that weak human hand with the mighty hand of God is so wonderful.  'I will stretch out My Hand'--that was the first promise--and it was worked out by Moses stretching out, in his weakness, the hand of faith below.  The stretched-out hand of faith on earth, acting in union with the stretched-out hand of God's power in heaven.  That is the sort of faith we have got to learn before we have done with it."

I am grateful that when I stretch out my hand in faith God is there to supply His power to whatever He has called me to do.