God S Refrigerator Photo — E.A. Johnston

God's Love Pictured on the Refrigerator

In the home of a family, it's not uncommon to find, on the refrigerator, photos of the children of that family, held there by magnets, so that every time you open the fridge and grab some food, you look and a picture of your loved one is smiling at you.

It's a warm and loving feeling. There is a passage in Isaiah, which always grips my heart, and it's found in Isaiah chapter 49 and in verses 13 through 16. But Zion said, The walls are continually before me.

God's People Engraved on His Hands

When I read that, I imagine the hands of God. In particular, the hands of Jesus. And I imagine that in the palm of His hand is my photo engraved there. It has a nail print running across it. For 2 ,000 years ago at Calvary, Christ Jesus died for me.

Union With Christ in His Death and Resurrection

And when Jesus went to the cross to die for my sins, He was clutching my photo in His hand, if I may so speak, when He died for me. For when He died, I died. When He was buried, I was buried with Him.

Christ's Sacrifice and Eternal Remembrance

When He rose, I rose in my union with Him. Jesus, the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. Behold, our text says, that means, look here. I have graven Thee upon the palms of my hands. When I get down in the dumps and the world is heavy upon my shoulders, and I read this striking passage of Scripture and contemplate all that Jesus did for me at Calvary, and I imagine God's refrigerator photo of me for all eternity graven there upon those nail-pierced hands that belong to the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.