The hand of God is the protective hand, it is the hand of the Father who loves his son and directs him by right paths. A father in his true judgment is not going to pretend that something bad happens to his son, he will take him on the right paths, paths where there is nothing in which the child can stumble, paths where the child does not get lost.

The child has that feeling of peace and tranquility, walks in places where he has never traveled, but trusts in the hand of his father who guides him. The Lord is speaking in His Word at the hand of God that takes us to places where we have never been and that tells us to be confident, that we should hold our hands to the hand of God.