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Isaiah chapter 49 verse 16 behold I have engraved you on the palms of my hands

your walls are continually before me. Did you hear that? God

telling his people in Isaiah I have engraved you on the palms of my hands.

Like we prayed a few chapters in Isaiah before this about writing on our hands.

I am the Lord.

It's like this is our identity in such a way that we would, every time we just look at our

hand we would remember, okay. I'm the Lord's this is who I am before I'm anything else I belong to God. Well here is God using this imagery to describe the way he relates to his people, thinks about

his people. He has his people engraved on the palm of his hand in such a way that he thinks about us all the time.

That he sees us at every moment as his own as those who belong to him.

Just picture it. To use this imagery, your name engraved on the palms of God's hands.

Oh, can I just encourage you today?

All those who have trusted in Jesus by his grace in your life.

He loves you so much. So much he loves you. He sees you he knows you he knows you better than you even know yourself he has called

you by name as we've seen over and over again in Isaiah from before the

foundation of the world and he loves you he cares for you, he's with you at every moment, he's for you.

This is God we're talking about.

Your name engraved on the palm of God's hands. That's the imagery here. So let's just praise God based on Isaiah 49 verse 16 and pray that we would live in light of this reality today that we would not live

Defeated lives we would not lived worried or anxious lives, or fearful lives that we would live

with humble confidence and humble joy and humble strength and all that flows from knowing your name is engraved on the palm of God's hand,

this picture, and his love for you today.

God, we praise you for your love for us.

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