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“What’s in Your Right Hand”? — Week 5 Isaiah asked, “…cannot you say that there is a lie in my right hand?” (Is 44:20).
We shake right hands, salute with our right hand, cover our heart with our right hand. The supreme example, of course, is that Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father making intercession for us. So it was no mistake that Isaiah asked the question, “Don’t you recognize that you have a lie in your right hand?” Don’t you know that what you have created by your own hand and raised up to the heaven is nothing more than a great falsehood? There is no truth, no reality, no relief, no healing, no deliverance in this “wooden” thing you have made. You call it a god, you pray to it, depend on it, look to it for happiness, peace and security. It’s a lie! It will profit you nothing. It is not eternal; it isn’t even permanent here on this earth. It will burn; it will crash; it will grow old and fall apart. You can paint it and polish it! You can call it by another name. You can dress it in a new suit of clothes. You can buy a new tent for it. You can keep it out of the rain, but eventually, it will decay, rust, ruin and collapse. Nothing you create will save you. Nothing you amass will satisfy you. Nothing you produce will bring you eternal life. Trust and obey for there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey. Make the Rock of Ages your God. Throw away and burn the idols of your life. They, indeed, are a perishable lie that profits us nothing. Oh, Lord, show me where I have made idols in my life, where I have depended on the arm of flesh instead of You. Rid me of those sins that so easily beset me. Save me and I shall be saved! Amen. |
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The right hand is the hand of authority. Can you imagine that God scooped up the Adamic clay with His right hand? Can you see Him puncturing the black sky with stars with His right hand? Can you see Moses raising his right hand for the Red Sea to part? Surely David threw the stone with his right hand and wielded the jaw bone with his right hand.