Holding Hands

There's a commercial with a young couple walking through a park and as they walk along they have to walk around an older couple walking the opposite direction. The young couple watches as the older walks away, hands clasped together illustrating the long lasting relationship and deep love for one another. Then without words between them, the young couple grabs hands and keeps on walking down the path.

There is something beautiful about couples holding hands, no matter what ages they are. Hand holding is a type of communication that goes much deeeper than words. We've witnessed countless couples sharing this quiet, intimate gesture (Peggy says they are "so cute!"). And we've tried to live like this, knowing that this simple gesture is a way to keep our love for each other real, strong and lasting. In fact, hand holding is not just a measure of the love that one has for one another, but an action that continues to build love between them. It's an act of love in itself.

Do you know when marriage is most difficult? When intimacy wanes and there is no touch, not even the simple holding of the hand. It's a sign that something has to change. Try holding hands.
The same is true in our relationship with God. When we walk through life without paying attention to God, that is when we will find our lives most difficult, the temptations coming at us the greatest, the challenges the hardest. And many times we'll turn to God from the mire and ask "where are you?"

The Psalmist said, "Ever since you took my hand, I'm on the right way." (Psalm 16:11, Msg)

It's not that God is refusing to take our hand, but is waiting for us to offer it... daily... moment by moment. God won't take what is not offered to Him. It has to be an act of will on our part. And refusing to hold hands with God is to keep from the intimate place God wants with us and for us.

When we hold God's hand, we stay on the right path, we get to know God, we have what God has to offer in the greatest measure, God's love. Through the simple act of hand holding.

Want to ramp up your relationships with God and your spouse (or significant others)?



Hold hands.

It really works.

In His Grip (and Peggy's)
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