March 8 Talk with
Your Hands
You’ve seen people who
talk with their hands, literally. The Deaf use sign language to communicate
what’s on their mind and heart. Most people use their hands, again literally,
to gesture, to emphasize the words they’re speaking.
Faith is like a hand,
not literally but figuratively, a “hand” that reaches out to hold onto Jesus
Christ. “The merit of Christ’s suffering is not communicated to us, unless we
grasp it by faith” (Lutheran Confessions, Apology IV, 390). This “hand” of
faith “grasps” all the promises Jesus makes to us. Talk with your “hands”; let
your grasp on the promises show in all you do! “We cannot but speak of what we
have heard and seen” (Acts 4:20).
Martin Luther: “Faith is a living,
daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that the believer would
stake his life on it a thousand times. This is the work which the Holy Spirit
performs in faith. Because of it,
without compulsion, a person is ready and glad to do good to everyone, to serve
everyone, to suffer everything, out of love and praise to God who has shown him
this grace” (Preface to the Romans).
CTRL+ALT+DEL: “Lord, give us
such a faith as this!” Amen.
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