God Is Holding On To You

Last Updated on March 26, 2025 by Stacy Averette

There are seasons when I feel like God and I are walking together hand-in-hand and others where I cling to God as if my life depended on it because it does. But there’s another season I’ve experienced, and I wonder if you can relate. It’s the season where God is holding on to me.

Hold You, Mama

That firstborn son of mine was a force to be reckoned with from the moment he was born. He was fiercely independent and focused even as a toddler. When he set his mind to something, there was no stopping him. The fact that he was always big for his age made “handling him” a challenge at times.

But when he wasn’t feeling well or was tired and weary from his busy little life, he’d come close, reach his hands toward my heart, and say, “Hold you, Mama.” Of course, he meant that he needed to be held. I can’t remember a time when his need didn’t melt my heart.

I’ve been blessed to witness my two-year-old grandson do the same with his mother. And like any good mother, she never turns him away. Being needed is one of the great joys of motherhood.

Hold My Hand

My grandson, who’s ‘terrifically two,’ if you know what I mean, is fiercely independent and extremely social. I love holding his hand when we’re in the car, shopping, or out to eat, and usually, he’s happy to have mine.

But when he has a plan that differs from what I think is best, it’s a battle of wills.

I walked with him today as we shopped—Ross, Shoe Station, Old Navy, TJ Maxx. We didn’t buy much because it was more about spending time together. Before we exited each store, I looked at my grandson and said, “Hold Mimi’s hand.” He would reach for my hand, much to my delight.

But the truth is, I was holding on to him. My hand, at least twice the size of his, gently gripped his hand, his wrist, and part of his arm. There was no way he was getting away from me.

There’s no way I’m letting go of him.

I know the dangers and harm that could befall him if I let him go his own way. He doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. My love for him demands I hold on even when he resists or pulls away.

God Is Holding On To You

We all have those seasons when perhaps we feel and behave like a fiercely independent toddler. The danger lurks because our Enemy does, and we don’t know what we don’t know. The opportunities feel like freedom; we long for adventure, but pitfalls and pain are ahead.

My hold on my grandson isn’t about hurting or preventing him from having fun but protecting, loving, and keeping him safe from the danger he doesn’t know.

Our loving Father knows when not to leave us to our own devices. We’re no “force to be reckoned with” in the hands of a Sovereign God.

Friend, I don’t know what season you’re in today. I hope you’re joyously walking hand-in-hand with God.

But if you’re not, I want you to know that God is holding you.

• When you’re wondering what’s around the next corner
• When you don’t know your next right step
• When you’re worn out and weary from life
• When the consequences of past mistakes are overwhelming

The Love That Will Not Let You Go

“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.”  Luke 15:4-5

The love that saved you is the love that keeps you. The God who searched for you in your wilderness days and carried you home to Himself is the same God who holds you now.

You yielded then. Yield now.

He is still seeking for you.

• He seeks each of us by the inner voices and emotions in our hearts and minds.
• He seeks us by our unrest, disappointments, and unmet desires.
• He seeks us by the discipline of life.

The deepest meaning of all life is that we should seek Him who in it all is seeking us.

O love that will not let me go,
I rest my weary soul in thee;
I give thee back the life I owe,
That in thine ocean depths its flow
May richer, fuller be.

When and how have you experienced God holding on to you? I’d love to hear your testimony of God’s faithfulness in a comment below.