Graven Thee Upon The Palms

"Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me." (Isaiah 49:16). This prophecy from Isaiah obviously refers to the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ and specifically how nails were driven into the palms of Christ's hands. Christ is as unlikely to forget about us as He is to forget the pain He endured in graving us into the palms of His hands. But how can we remember Christ just as strongly as He remembers us? How can we grave Christ into our palms? When Jesus made His triumphal entry into Jerusalem on the day we now commemorate as Palm Sunday, all those who believed in the coming of the Messiah cried out in joy and laid before Christ's path palms. No doubt the colt upon which Christ rode graved into those palms its hoofprints as it walked over them. I can only imagine how dearly treasured were those palms that were graven with the passage of the promised Messiah. I am certain that great pains were taken to preserve those palms and the marks made on them so that they could remember for all long as the palms lasted that fateful day. Many of us today spend so much of our time with our smartphones in our hands that it is not too much of an exaggeration to say that they are graven into the palms of our hands. Our smartphones can access nearly every word and song and piece of art and video about Jesus Christ that has ever been published. At no cost but our time and our attention we can have the Savior graven into our palms in perhaps even a more real sense than the ancient Israelites had the passage of Christ graven into the palms they laid before Him. For better or worse, most of us are going to have our smartphones graven into our palms most of the time, but we can make the choice to have our Savior Jesus Christ and His gospel graven into our palms as well, because for certain Jesus has us graven into His palms.