Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube of song and lyrics from Crowder singing … Forgiven … poignantly and powerful singing of God’s promise of forgiveness fulfilled by Jesus who took the nails in His hands/feet so that we who put those nails in His hands.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Isaiah 49:15b-16a [NKJV] … 15 …Surely they may forget,Yet I will not forget you. 16 See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; …
… The nail scars in HIs hands are the evidence of His willingness to die for our forgiveness.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Isaiah 49:14-18 [NKJV]… USE THIS LINK …
… God’s promise of forgiveness which was to be nailed into His hands to give us His saving grace.
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Reference Passage : … Numbers 23:19 [NKJV] … 19 “God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
… God is not like man … He ALWAY keeps His promises.
Reference Passage : … Revelation 21:3 [NKJV] … 3 And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.
… God will keep His ultimate promise and come again so that we can dwell with Him forever.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Amy Boucher Pye, wrote of Charles Spurgeon’s teaching about God’s promise of redeeming His people and bringing them to be with Him in Heaven. The author wrote … In Charles Spurgeon’s many years at his London church during the 1800s, he loved to preach on the riches of Isaiah 49:16, which says that God engraves us on the palms of His hands. He said, “Such a text as this is to be preached hundreds of times!” This thought is so precious that we can run over it in our minds again and again.
Spurgeon makes the wonderful connection between this promise of the Lord to His people, the Israelites, and God’s Son, Jesus, on the cross as He died for us. Spurgeon asked, “What are these wounds in Your hands? . . . The engraver’s tool was the nail, backed by the hammer. He must be fastened to the Cross, that His people might be truly engraved on the palms of His hands.” As the Lord promised to engrave His people on His palms, so Jesus stretched out His arms on the cross, receiving the nails in His hands so we could be free of our sins.
Open your hands (as in the photo) and look into the lines etched in your palms; and then realized that these can - and should - be reminders of Gods’ promises, which were nailed into His hands by our sins on the Cross. And His scars are permanent reminders that God ALWAYS keeps His promises [Num. 23:19); and He will ultimately keep His promise to return again and bring all the redeemed to Himself in heaven [Rev. 21:3].
I was (and you were) the one who put those scars in His hands; but His blood, shed from those wounds, are what has redeemed me by my (and your) faith that He has kept, is keeping, and will aways keep His promises. Glory be that His promises are etched into my palms forever.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for Your promise of redemption which my faith in Your finished work on the cross has wrought.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all who read here can look at the lines in our palms and remember the scars in Yours. … Amen
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