(J. R. Miller, “In Perfect Peace“)
So frail is human strength, though behind it is tenderest, truest love. Because all that love can do, all that money can do, all that skill can do—avail nothing. Human arms may clasp us very firmly, yet their clasp cannot keep us from the power of disease—or from the cold hand of death.
UNDERNEATH ARE THE EVERLASTING ARMS
But the love and strength of God are everlasting. Because nothing can ever separate us from Him! An Old Testament promise reads: “The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.” Deuteronomy 33:27. If we are stayed upon the eternal God, nothing ever can disturb us. Nothing can disturb Him on whom we are reposing. But if we are held in the clasp of His arms, we need not fear that we shall ever be separated from the enfolding.
The position in this picture is suggestive—”Underneath.” The arms are always underneath us. No matter how low we sink—in weakness, in faintness, in pain, in sorrow—we never can sink below these everlasting arms! We never can drop out of their clasp!
But evermore, in the deepest floods, His arms will be underneath the feeblest, most imperiled child of God. Sorrow is very deep—but in the greatest grief, these everlasting arms of love are underneath the sufferer. Then when death comes, and every earthly support is gone from beneath us, when every human arm unclasps, and every face of love fades from before our eyes, and we sink away into what seems darkness and the shadow of death—we shall only sink into the everlasting arms underneath us!
The word “are,” must not be overlooked—”Underneath are the everlasting arms.” This is one of the wonderful present tenses of the Bible. Therefore to every trusting believer, to you who today are reading these words and trying to learn the lesson, God says, “Underneath you are now, this moment, every moment, the everlasting arms!”
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