Inscribed on His hands
Psalm 139:1-3, 17-18 NKJV
O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways . . . How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with You.
Isaiah 49:15-16 NKJV
Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely, they may forget, yet I will not forget you. See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands . . .
Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV
The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
J. I. Packer
What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it – the fact that He knows me. I am graven on the palms of His hands. I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends on His sustained initiative in knowing me. I know Him, because He first knew me, and continues to know me. He knows me as a friend, one who loves me; and there is no moment when His eye is off me, or His attention distracted from me, and no moment, therefore, when His care falters. (Knowing God, p. 37)
Loving Father,
My heart cries with King David, “How precious are your thought to me!” I rest in the awesome wonder that I am “inscribed on the palms” of your hands.
You know me and have known me before I was in my mother’s womb.
You see me and have seen everything I have ever done; every attempt to serve you, but, sadly, more often, every failure and disobedience; and still you relate to me with profound mercy and grace and forgiveness. Your love and compassion are incomprehensible.
O merciful Lord, I have nothing to offer you but my worship, my praise, and my repentance, which I give You now through the merits of Jesus Christ my Lord.
Amen.
I am His and He is Mine
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