Hand-made

What are hands for?

When God made you he gave you an amazing tool, so important that he even gave you two of them. Your hands. Usually when God says or does something important He repeats it, since we usually don't get the message the first time. So what message did He want us to get by giving us two hands?

God gave us hands to create. Being made in His image we have an incurable desire to build or create. Some use their hands to press keys and create music. Some create works of art with their hands skillfully and gently moving colors and textures. Some even use their gifted hands to lay bricks and wood to create structure and order.

God gave us hands to communicate. While not all people have to use their hands to speak, communication would be highly lacking and much more difficult if we lacked hands to display our thoughts. Something as simple as a handshake or a high five cannot be conveyed in words with the same force without our wonderful gifts.

God gave us hands to care for others. He who gave us hands also gave us the ability to find meaning in touching others' hands. God created it and said it was good. One of the most powerful moments in the new Toy Story movie is when all the toys are at the dump and sliding towards the furnace. They all panic for a moment before realizing they had absolutely no hope. Once each realizes this they silently take each other's hands and bravely face their fate. How does this contact change things? How can you explain the comradery and love conveyed by holding someone's hand? God gave us hands for this.

What a creative God we serve! Who else could invent something so universally necessary as the hand or the dream? God has given you the most beautiful world full of expressions of His love for you, including, but not limited to, your own hands. Wow. I hope you marvel at God today.

~Elyz~