Engraved!

(by John MacDuff)

"Behold! I have engraved you on the palms of My hands!"  Isaiah 49:16

"Behold," says Immutable One, "I have engraved you on the palms of My hands!"
Not on the mountains, as colossal as they are — for they shall depart;
on no page of nature's vast volume — for the last fires shall scorch them;
not on blazing sun — for he shall grow dim with age;
not on glorious heavens — for they shall be folded together as a scroll.
But on . . .
  the hands of might and love,
  the hands which made the worlds,
  the hands which were transfixed on Calvary,
 — I have engraved you there!

No corroding power can efface the writing, or obliterate your name!

You are Mine now — and Mine forever!

"I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish;
 no one can snatch them out of My hand!" John 10:28