His Love is Written on His Hands

            Have you had your Joy Juice today?  The Father offers it to you personally.  His hands are open and holding your gift of you.  

            In his book God Loves You, David Jeremiah tells the story of a quiet and lonely man, William Dixon.  He had lost his wife and son, so had no family to call his own.  One day his neighbor’s home caught fire. Dixon and others ran to help.  They pulled an elderly lady from the flames.  As she gasped for air, she told them that her little grandson was trapped upstairs.

            At that point the people groaned because the stairway was impassable.  But William Dixon found an iron drainage pipe running up the wall.  Taking hold of it, he pulled himself upward and found the terrified boy.  He scooped up the child and scrambled back to the ground.

            A few days later, the grandmother died from her injuries, leaving the little boy an orphan.  The village people met to determine his fate.  Two people offered to take the boy.  The first good citizen told why he would be the best choice because of the good home he could provide.  The second volunteer was William Dixon, the rescuer.  He said few words, but his bandaged hands spoke for him.  The hot iron pipe he had climbed to save the boy had burned his hands severely.

            When it came to a vote, the man with the scarred hands went home with the orphan boy.   His love, everyone agreed, was written in his hands.

            David Jeremiah explains: “The love of our Lord was also written on His hands—the two hands stretched out and nailed to the cross, where they flowed with blood that indelibly wrote His love for us for all eternity.”

            Find joy by taking hold of the nail- scarred hands.