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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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