{"id":41083,"date":"2026-07-26T20:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T03:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41083"},"modified":"2026-07-26T20:40:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T03:40:47","slug":"26-0727","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0727\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust God\u2019s Sturdy Grip"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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In one of Henri Nouwen\u2019s books, he tells about the lesson of trust he learned from a great trapeze artist. The acrobat said, \u201cThe flyer does nothing and the catcher does everything. I have simply to reach out my arms and hands and wait for him to catch me and pull me safely over the apron.\u201d The flyer must trust, with outstretched arms, that his catcher will be there for him.<\/p>\n

In the great trapeze act of salvation, God is the catcher, and we are the flyers. We trust. Period. We rely solely upon God\u2019s ability to catch us. As we do trust him, a wonderful thing happens\u2014we fly!<\/p>\n

Your Father has never dropped anyone. He will not drop you. His grip is sturdy and his hands are open. Place yourself entirely in his care. As you do, you will find it is possible\u2014yes,\u00a0possible<\/em>\u2014to be anxious for nothing.<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more\u00a0Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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In one of Henri Nouwen\u2019s books, he tells about the lesson of trust he learned from a great trapeze artist. The acrobat said, \u201cThe flyer does nothing and the catcher does everything. I have simply to reach out my arms and hands and wait for him to catch me and pull me safely over the apron.\u201d The flyer must trust, with outstretched arms, that his catcher will be there for him.<\/p>\n

In the great trapeze act of salvation, God is the catcher, and we are the flyers. We trust. Period. We rely solely upon God\u2019s ability to catch us. As we do trust him, a wonderful thing happens\u2014we fly!<\/p>\n

Your Father has never dropped anyone. He will not drop you. His grip is sturdy and his hands are open. Place yourself entirely in his care. As you do, you will find it is possible\u2014yes, possible\u2014to be anxious for nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41085,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41083\/revisions\/41085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}