God's chosen people are, because of their sinful disobedience, living in exile in Babylon. Their homeland is in ruins. They grieve and yearn to go back home! They cry: "The LORD has forsaken me, the LORD has forgotten me."
And God responds, "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." (Recorded in Isaiah 49).
Thoughts from Charles Spurgeon:
"How can I have forgotten you, when I have engraved you on the palms of My hands? How can you forget My constant remembrance when the memorial is carved into My flesh? We do not know what to wonder at most -- the faithfulness of God or the unbelief of His people? He has kept His promises a thousand times, and yet the next trial makes us doubt Him.
He never fails. He is never a dry well. He is never a setting sun, a passing meteor, or fading vapor. And yet we are continually troubled with anxieties, molested with suspicions, and disturbed with fears as if our God were the mirage of the desert.
"I have engraved you." It does not say "your name."
The name is there, but that is not all. "I have engraved you."
Consider the depth of this. "I have engraved your person, your image, your circumstances, your temptations, your weaknesses, your works -- YOU -- everything about you. I have put it all here."
Will you ever say again that your God has forsaken you when He has engraved you on His own palms?"
Those nail-scarred hands?
We can say, "No one who trusts in You will ever be disappointed."
-- Psalm 25:3
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