loveSaturday, August 22
Engraved on His Hands
Scripture
"Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands."
— Isaiah 49:15-16
What it means
Israel had just said God had forgotten them. He answers with the strongest bond anyone could name, a nursing mother, and then says even that can fail while His does not. The word for engraved means cut in, not written on. In the ancient world people sometimes marked a city's name on their hand so it stayed in front of them.