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“My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.” (Psalm 31:15)

When David penned these words, he was either currently in, or reflecting back, on his time on the run from Saul, being persecuted for righteousness’ sake because of Saul’s sin and jealousy. David summarized this perilous period of his life that every day “there is but a step between me and death.” (1 Sam. 20:3) In this passage, David was resting in the truth that all his “times” – the mountain top of slaying Goliath and even hiding in caves with just a step between him and death – were safely held in the hand of God. He knew he could die at any moment, but that fear was eased because he knew his life was held in the hand of God. All our lives are held in God’s hand and sustained and protected by the Lord. It’s in Christ that we “live, and move, and have our being.” (Acts 17.28)

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Job 3:16-19 “Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. [17] There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. [18] There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. [19] The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.”

In the midst of Job’s severe trial, he bemoans ever being born, and he considered the state of a hidden untimely birth as being infinitely better than his current state of suffering. It is estimated that one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage. With the loss of babies in the womb being such a prevalent struggle for many of God’s children, the Lord provides comfort all throughout scripture to his children who struggle with the loss of an untimely birth. This passage in Job is one of the most enlightening and comforting verses in all of God’s word to provide hope and comfort to grieving parents of the heavenly home of their miscarried child.

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