FINGERPRINT OF GOD
Isn’t it amazing that we can be identified by our one and only fingerprint! I have only been fingerprinted once. That was when I took my cub scouts to the police department and they fingerprinted each one of us. (Were you thinking it was not as innocent as that?) Every person has a different fingerprint and the police can find a criminal by the fingerprint they have left on an item. God made each one of our fingerprints different, just like He made each one of us different. We are unique. We have different skin tones-different eye colors-different talents-different voices-different personalities. Think about that. There is no one like me. There is no one like you. (Of course, if you are an identical twin, you may have many physical traits that are the same. Maybe even acting the same.) But God created you and me as one of a kind.
There are many instances in the bible where it talks about the finger of God, the one and only God. Here are just a few.
- Psalm 8:3 says “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained.” He is the only creator!
- Exodus 8:19 reads Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, ‘This is the finger of God.’ But Pharaoh’s heart grew hard and he did not heed them, just as the Lord had said.” This was said by Pharaoh’s magicians during the third plague, which was lice. These magicians had been able to produce water to blood in the first plague and frogs in the second plague, but here they realized that these lice were a product of the one and only God.
- Exodus 31:18 tells us “And when He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.” Exodus 32:16 reads “Now the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God engraved on the tablets.” The finger of God here shows the 10 Commandments were not the product of man, but the revelation of the Lord.
- Daniel 5. Read this interesting chapter about Belshazzar, the son of Nebuchadnezzar. He had a feast. He gave the gold vessels that had been stolen from the temple, by his father, to his guests. V.4-6 reads “They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone. In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king’s countenance changed and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other.” (I laugh every time I read that! You, younger ones won’t know who I am talking about, but it makes me think of Don Knotts. He was on the tv show in the 60’s, called ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ and one of my favorite hilarious movies of that time called ‘The Ghost and Mr. Chicken.’ He is trying to impress a girl and stays in a haunted house. The end of the verse above, reminds me how he acts. ‘His hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other,’ when he becomes scared. Look it up some time!) The king calls for his wise men to come interpret what the finger of the hand wrote on the wall, making promises to them. They could not interpret it. The queen, told him about Daniel, who was able to interpret. He tells the king what the words mean and tells him that “…the God who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified. Then the fingers of the hand were sent from Him…” Daniel tells the king that the one and only God sent this message.
All of these verses, point to the fact that there can only be one God. There are so many gods that people worship. There are so many objects of this life that we intertwin within our lives and hearts, that we start worshiping them instead of God. We spend more of our time thinking, watching, reading, taking part in, other things than we spend thinking, watching, reading, taking part in, of our God. There are many, many verses that tell us there is only one true God. Here are a couple. Ephesians4:6 reads “…one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” Revelation 1:8 “I am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, says the Lord, who is and who was and who is to come the Almighty.” 1Corinthians 8:6 “…for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.”
The finger print of God, is in our scriptures, our bible. The finger print of God, is in our everyday lives-directing us-loving us-pointing us in the right direction that we need to go. Pointing us to our future, for His best purpose of our lives. If we would realize that there is only one God and follow His laws that we read in scripture, our lives would be more peaceful, joyful and we would have more hope and trust in our one and only God.
Unlike our fingerprints that are all different, God has put His one and only, fingerprint on you and on me, making us one of a kind. We must follow the one and only true fingerprint which is of God.
Until next time! Keela
(The picture above is a handprint on my door going into the house from the garage, of my grandson, Owen, when he was little. My daughter and I were having a garage sale. He crawled in my garage and had black hands and knees from crawling on the floor. He pulled himself up to the door, leaving that little hand print. I drew a square around it with his name, so it won’t get cleaned off. I know that is crazy, but us nana’s do crazy things when it comes to our grandkids!!)
