“No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand” (John 10:30)
In Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus describes the powerful protection of his Father’s hand. We can trust that in heaven we will be utterly safe in the Father’s embrace, and with his hands he “will wipe away every tear” from our eyes (Revelations 7:17).
To arrive in the Father’s embrace, we must first put ourselves into the hands of our Good Shepherd, Jesus, which have the same divine power: “no one will snatch them out of my hand” (John 10:28). The Father “has given all things into his hand” (John 3:35), so we can rest in Jesus. The only person who can pry us from the hands of Jesus is our own self, through our own sin: if we are faithful he will never let go of us, but he respects our free choices, whatever they be. Our Good Shepherd carries us in his hands but he never coerces us.
