GOD...AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
THERE ARE TIMES IN EVERYONE'S LIFE THAT GOD SEEMS SO FAR AWAY..
IT CAN COME AT ANYTIME...AT A MOMENT OF SORROW...
A SUDDEN DISAPPOINTMENT...THE DEATH OF A LOVED ONE
OR DEFEAT IN THE MIDST OF A SERIOUS TEMPTATION.
WHAT EVER IT MAY BE.. WHEN THIS FEELING OF DEVINE
ABANDONMENT OCCURS... DON'T DESPAIR!
TAKE A LONG LOOK AT YOUR HANDS, SEE GOD'S LOVE FOR YOU THERE.
YOUR HANDS WERE CREATED BY ALMIGHTY GOD,
THEY BOTH BEAR THE STAMP OF HIS INDIVIDUAL LOVE FOR YOU.
THE IDENTIFYING MARKS OF HIS LOVE ARE YOUR FINGERPRINTS.
NEVER, BEFORE YOU WERE CREATED, OR AFTER YOU LEAVE THIS EARTH
WILL GOD PRODUCE ANOTHER SET OF FINGERPRINTS SUCH AS YOURS.
NEVER HAS THERE BEEN NOR WILL THERE EVER BE
ANOTHER PAIR OF HANDS SUCH AS YOURS.
THINK OF IT!
IT WAS GOD'S INFINITE LOVE THAT CAUSED YOUR BEING.
FROM THE FIRST MOMENT OF ETERNITY HE HAD YOU IN HIS MIND.
HE LOVED YOU SO MUCH THAT HE GAVE YOU EXISTENCE
AND KEEPS YOU IN EXISTENCE.
TO REMIND YOU OF THIS, HE MARKED YOU WITH HIS LOVE.
AS AN ARTIST LEAVES HIS SIGNATURE ON HIS CREATION,
GOD HAD TRADEMARKED YOUR HANDS WITH AN IDENTIFYING
MARK OF HIS PERSONAL LOVE FOR YOU, YOU ARE HIS!
SINGULARLY CREATED, YOUR ARE SINGULARLY LOVED!
WHY HAS HE DONE THIS?
TO RMIND YOU IN YOUR HOUR OF SORROW,
IN DISAPPOINTMENT, IN THE MOMENT OF TEMPTATION,
THAT YOUR HANDS ARE MEANT TO WORK WITH HIS AT ALL TIMES.
THAT IS WHY WHEN HIS CROSS SEEMS SO HARD TO CARRY,
WHEN IT SLIPS FROM YOUR SHOULDER AND DRAGS,
TAKE A GOOD LONG LOOK AT YOUR HANDS.
AS YOU FOLD THEM TOGETHER, AND LIFT UP YOUR HEART.
GOD IS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, JUST A PRAYER AWAY!
Thomas E. Langer
(Beautifully recorder for us in Isaiah 49:13-16)
Picture by Danny Hahlbohm
Used with permission