Sunday, January 20, 2013

HANDS


 

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The lesson from this story told by Jesus is crystal clear.  Faith is not an academic exercise.  Which is why at this point I would ask of you what I call congregational participation. 

Look down at your hands.  Now raise them up.  Now ball them in a fist and we all know what fists can do.  Now put them together in prayer.  Now extend one of your hands to your neighbor in an act of fellowship.  Now hold your hands in your lap as if you reading a book.

Eight fingers and two thumbs: so describes your hands, which are really history books on review.  Look at them and let them remind you of all that they have done in your lifetime or left undone.  For yes, they have been servants of your thoughts and beliefs translated into action.

            Now, still looking, ask yourself, how many have they helped? How many have they hurt?  When, and where and why?  When you have extended them in acts of fellowship they were a blessing.  When they have been extended in acts of major or minor violence they have been a curse.

       Have they been giving hands?  Or stealing hands?  Hands that have held books of inspiration or books of filth?  Have they written notes of thanksgiving to give joy or poison pen letters to destroy?  A surgeon’s hand holds a knife to heal.  A murderer’s hand holding a knife to kill. 

Hands tell us so much about a person. Clasping and unclasping, not at ease.  Lying quietly, at peace with the world and God.  Blasting a horn, giving a finger, sometimes much too angry.

       There is a tinge of paint on the hands – an artist and the world is seen as a place of beauty.

       He washes his hands over and over and over again.  His name is Pilate and he cannot seem to ever wash them enough.  For him, the world is a place of overwhelming guilt.

       His hands are steady, persistent, patient, as he holds the sextant.  Look closely for these are the hands of Christopher Columbus.

This hand pens a large, bold signature; large enough for fat King Charles to read without his glasses on.  It is John Hancock’s hand signing the Declaration of Independence, and then passing on this great document for other hands to sign.

       During World War II, Sir Winston Churchill raised two fingers to form a V for victory.  And on the battlefields of that war, as done by countless generations before, so many hands were placed together in the sacred act of prayer.

       Hands, they are our gift from God.  We must make them a gift to God.
 
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