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Engraved!
(John MacDuff, 1874)
“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands;” Isaiah 49:15-16
“Behold,” says infinite God, “I have engraved you on the palms of My hands!”
Not on the mountains, as colossal as they are, for they shall depart;
not on any page of nature’s vast volume, for the last fires shall scorch them;
not on blazing sun, for it shall grow dim with age;
not on glorious heavens, for they shall be folded together as a scroll.
But on . . .
the hand which made the worlds,
the hand which was transfixed on the cruel cross,
the hand of infinite might and unmeasurable love;
I have engraved you there! No corroding power can efface the writing, or obliterate your name!
You are Mine now, and Mine forever!
“Fear not, for I have redeemed you. I have summoned you by name – you are Mine!” Isaiah 43:1