Isaiah 41:13 For I the LORD your God will hold your right hand, saying to you, Fear not; I will help you.… I. ITS SOURCE. "I will hold thy right hand." The grasp of the hand is significant of close and present friendship, of the living nearness of the deliverer. And that sense of God's presence, so near that our faith can touch His hand and hear the deep still music of His voice — realised as it may be in Christ, is the source of a courage which no danger can dispel, no suffering exhaust, and no death destroy. The clearest way of illustrating this will be to take the higher forms of courage among men, and observe what states of soul are most conducive to it. 1. Beginning with the courage of active resistance, we find its great element in the fixed survey of the means of conquest. 2. Passing on to the courage needful for passive endurance, we find that its great feature is self-surrender to the highest law of life. The Christian endures, because the law of his being has become resignation to the will of God. II. ITS NECESSITY. 1. It requires courage to manifest the Christian character before men. 2. To maintain steadfast obedience to the will of God. 3. To hold fast to our highest aspirations. (E. L. Hull, B. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. |
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