The words “right hand” occur over 150 times in the Bible.
Why is this two-word phrase so significant? What’s important about our right hand?
It’s no accident we call our best mate our right-hand man. We seat our most important dinner guests at our right hand. Ninety percent of all people are right-handed. It’s the hand that contains the greatest strength for most people the world over.
It’s also considered the hand of blessing and the hand of sovereignty. In the Bible, priests were anointed on the right hand (Lev. 14:17). When sacrifices were offered in the Bible (Ex. 29:20 and Lev. 8:23), blood anointed the right hand.
Our right hand of power flows directly from the Lord. Read in Exodus 15:6:
“Your right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: Your right hand, O Lord, has dashed in pieces the enemy.”
To underscore how momentous this verse is, we must look at it in context. The Israelites had been in Egypt for 400 years. When Moses convinced Pharaoh to let them go, the Egyptians had a change of heart. The Israelites were their breadwinners, their slaves. The Egyptians were the most powerful nation around. They wanted their slaves back, and they chased them to the shores of the Red Sea, hemming them in and trapping them.
God cannot be trapped, not even by the most powerful forces on the earth. God rolled the waters aside, and the Israelites escaped through this impossible (in the natural) escape route. When the Egyptians pursued them, the waters of the Red Sea rolled over them, and in their weighty armor, the Pharaoh and his men were dragged down and drowned.
When we face impossible odds, we must remember the Red Sea. God can roll our troubles aside, and after we step through, he can destroy all the problems that try to follow along after us. The Lord is our mighty right hand of power, and he continually comes to our defense.
When defeat stands in our way, let’s clench our fist and bash the devil in the nose. Our power comes from the Lord, for he is our right hand and our strength.
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