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Isaiah chapter 49 verse 16.

God says, behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands.

Your walls are continually before me.

What a picture.

God speaking to his people in the Old Testament specifically here and he uses

this imagery he says I've engraved you on the palms of my hands. What does that mean?

When you think about I mean even today it's not

altogether different from Old Testament times, I mean to think about a tattoo

that somebody gets on their skin and that's something they're saying I want that

to be fixed on me for as long as I live where I constantly remember this one

thing and I constantly look at this one thing and my attention is drawn to this one thing

because it's it's on me and you think about something like that on your hand. I mean you see it all the time and so God says about his people I've engraved

you on the palms of my hands and he uses that those words after that your walls

are continually before me so that basically saying to his people,

I don't forget you. I'm committed to you. Everything I'm doing, I'm thinking about you.

I'm caring for you. I'm caring for you.

I have you at the forefront of my mind, my heart,

and all that I'm doing.

These are glorious words that when we think about God's love for us in Christ.

So yes, we're not the people of God in Isaiah chapter 49 specifically with walls that are

continually before God, but the picture is in our lives.

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