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Friday
14 September, 2007 |
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Invitation in hand
Somebody gave me a pot of home-made, wild-plum jam. It reminded me of an old Australian custom to ‘give something in the hand’ to a departing visitor. It was a minted token of one’s self, an unspoken wish for a safe journey home.
Now, in the face of heavy commercialism the simple gestures of our past are made to seem valueless and unworthy.
Sentiment is out of date if it has no dollar value and we have been left isolated, the tokens of affection and comfort stolen from us by mockery.
Yet when Jesus left our planet He was not ashamed to ‘take something in the hand’ with Him. It was an inscription written with nails.
He said…
“I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands.” Isaiah 49:16
And then when He was on this earth He said,
“Why do doubts arise in your minds? Look at my hands…” Luke 24:38,39
It is a pressing invitation to Him to come back to us!
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It
was also a pressing invitation to come back.