“See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are ever before me..
Isaiah 49:16
“My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. “
John 10:27-29
So valuable are we to the Father that he has engraved us on the palms of His hands!
The scripture doesn’t actually say whether it is our name, or our images
or both that are engraved there,
but it is specific to each of us.
Consider that our individual faces and lives are always before Jehovah Rohi-the Lord who sees-constantly,
we are always on His mind, and His desire is for relationship with us, now and forever.
He loves us!
With human minds we cannot begin to understand this;
His ways and thoughts are higher than ours,
As His children we can take Him at His word and trust Him.
All that we are, and ultimately our eternal futures, are wrapped up in the Lord,
as we listen to His voice and follow Him,
we cannot be snatched from His Hand, come what may,
as the storms and trials of life swirl around us, and even as we are shaken,
God still has hold of us.
Today, take comfort and confidence in these things, beloved,
not just because they feel good, but because they are true.