Lord’s Day Meditation: “Behold, I Have Graven Thee upon the Palms of My Hands” by C.H. Spurgeon

Lord’s Day Meditation: “Behold, I Have Graven Thee upon the Palms of My Hands” by C.H. Spurgeon (Morning & Evening, November 7, Morning)

“Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands.” (Isaiah 49:16)

No doubt a part of the wonder which is concentrated in the
word “Behold,” is excited by the unbelieving lamentation of the
preceding sentence. Zion said, “The Lord hath forsaken me, and my God hath
forgotten me.” How amazed the divine mind seems to be at this wicked
unbelief! What can be more astounding than the unfounded doubts and fears of
God’s favoured people? The Lord’s loving word of rebuke should make us blush;
he cries, “How can I have forgotten thee, when I have graven thee upon the
palms of my hands? How darest thou doubt my constant remembrance, when the
memorial is set upon my very flesh?” O unbelief, how strange a marvel thou
art! We know not which most to wonder at, the faithfulness of God or the
unbelief of his people. He keeps his promise a thousand times, and yet the next
trial makes us doubt him. He never faileth; he is never a dry well; he is never
as a setting sun, a passing meteor, or a melting vapour; and yet we are as
continually vexed with anxieties, molested with suspicions, and disturbed with
fears, as if our God were the mirage of the desert. “Behold,” is a
word intended to excite admiration. Here, indeed, we have a theme for
marvelling. Heaven and earth may well be astonished that rebels should obtain
so great a nearness to the heart of infinite love as to be written upon the
palms of his hands. “I have graven thee.” It does not say, “Thy
name.” The name is there, but that is not all: “I have graven
thee.” See the fulness of this! I have graven thy person, thine image, thy
case, thy circumstances, thy sins, thy temptations, thy weaknesses, thy wants,
thy works; I have graven thee, everything about thee, all that concerns thee; I
have put thee altogether there. Wilt thou ever say again that thy God hath
forsaken thee when he has graven thee upon his own palms?

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