How do you think that God sees us? I was reading a book recently and he talked about finger prints making us unique. That got me to thinking…we know we all look different. We also have been told, at least I hope you have, that God knows the number of hairs on our heads. He doesn’t have as big a problem with mine now because I don’t have as many as I used to, but He knows the number. 🙂 What does that tell you about how special we are to Him? Let’s think about that for a minute. What happens when we get into trouble with the law, or we have to get a permit, or work for certain institutions? We have to get finger printed. Why? Because each set of prints is individual to each person. It is uniquely you.
So as I thought more about this, an experience I had many years ago, came to mind. In 1973, I burned my right hand and arm and the part of my hand on my left hand in a fire. I was making a specialty item for Christmas and the lard (we used that in those days) caught fire on the stove. I ended up with 2nd and 3rd degree burns on my hands and arm. I was eventually hospitalized because of infection setting in even though it was covered. I don’t want to make you feel ill, but in order to make my point, I need to share this with you. I lost the skin on my hands and also my arm in places. I could look down between my old skin and the new that was growing and see the intricate work of God. My body had to grow new skin and it was extremely sensitive to touch. I couldn’t touch two fingers together without pain. That is because my nerves were raw and open. When my new skin came back, it was, and still remains, thinner than it was. Even to this day it doesn’t take much to have an issue with a burn that I may get while cooking. If I get a burn, it takes a long time to heal. So here is the interesting part….I still have my finger prints. My finger tips aren’t scarred from it. My skin on the hands are more wrinkled than most people have, but my fingerprints are still uniquely mine.
I find it rather fascinating to see that even though I lost my prints, this creation we call our body, grew new skin and gave me my finger prints back. God did that in His creation of us. My hands and arms became a new creation…and my prints today are used when I have had to apply for jobs and permits. How unique God has made us! The thing is, if He can make us unique enough that an accident can not take away my unique prints, even when they had to become new, and they can still identify me as me, THAT is pretty amazing! He cares for me that much. He cares for you that much. He has made you unique and has unique plans just for you. Not to be compared with others, but made and created just for you.
I love that about God. We each have a plan. We each have unique gifts to offer in service to Him. If you are feeling unworthy or overwhelmed by life in general and trying to find out what God wants of you, don’t look at that mountain and say how big the mountain is, but tell the mountain how big your God is! Let’s leave our finger prints all over the people around us, so that, they know of the love of a God who cares enough to love them individually for who they are, and to help them along the path to who He wants them to become! He tells us to love our neighbors. Let’s leave fingerprints of love on those around us, so they can feel, and thus know, that they are loved by a BIG God!
Until next time…
~JoAnn
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