What Kinds Of Hands Do You Have?

Did you hear about the young couple that went to the mountains for a romantic winter break?

• When they got there, the man went out to chop some wood. When he got back, he said, "Darling, my hands are freezing!"

• She says, "Well put them in my warm hands and I will warm them up for you.”

• After lunch he went back out to chop some more wood and came back and said, "Honey! My hands are really freezing!"

• She says again, "Well put them here between my warm hands and I will warm them up again."

• After dinner, he went out one more time to chop wood for the night. When he returned, he again said, "Darling, my hands are really, really freezing!"

• She looked at him in somewhat of a disgusted manner and said, "For crying out loud, don't your ears ever get cold?"

You have two hands. A right hand and a left hand, two hands. We use them:

• To work with.

• To greet each other.

• To applaude greatness

• To help each other

• To write with

• To eat with

• To open and close doors

We take our hands for graned but if we did not have them we would come to realize fast how important they are to us.

Even though we recognize how important our hands are we see sometime that some through some misfortune have lost their hands are arms.

Illus: We often see soldiers in serving their country many of them have lost their arms or legs.

Illus: The Shriners hospital in their effort to raise money for children born with a handicap have children on television with their handicaps. As they show this on television I stop what I am doing to see these precious children. Some of these children might have lost…

• One leg

• One arm

• One hand

Eerytime we see these commercial ads it saddens our heart.

But the one that gets my attention the most is a young boy born with no arms and he plays the piano with his toes.

The boy is smiling and it does not seem to bother him that he has no arms. He was born with no arms and it does not seem to bother him because he does not know what it would be like to have arms.

But in the spiritual world there are many in our churches who have no arms.

In the New Testament, we often come across the phrase, “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.”

When we read these words, they seem to be unusual because we all have ears, so why would the Word of God say, “He that hath ears…”?

The New Testament writers knew we all had PHYSICAL EARS, but what they were talking about were SPIRITUAL EARS.

• While everyone has Physical EARS everyone does not have SPIRITUAL EARS.

• While everyone has PHYSICAL HANDS, everyone does not have SPIRITUAL HANDS

That is, they have PHYSICAL HANDS that they do PHYSICAL WORK WITH, BUT SPIRITUALLY THEY HAVE NO HANDS TO DO ANYTHING FOR GOD WITH.

Some if they live to be 150 years of age, they will never do anything for the Lord because they do not have spiritual hands.

Illus: That is, if the Lord call many folks to stand before Him today and ask them as their Creator what did you do for me when you were living on earth.

Some would have a difficult time to think of something they did for the Lord. Because the life they live is all about what they have done for themselves. Some would not be able to come up with one thing they did for the Lord. YES, WE ALL KNOW PEOPLE LIKE THIS!!! Day after day life is all about them!!!

Can you imagine how ashame some folks are going to be when they stand before their Creator and give account of how they live their life for self only.

THINK ABOUT IT!!! That is, they take the hands that God gave them to work for Him and they only used them for themselves.

Our hands play a very important part of our life. Our hands tell a great deal about us.

I want us to look at several kinds of hands. First, we need to consider-

I. WORKING HANDS

You can generally tell working hands because they have:

• Cuts on them

• Scratches on them

• Calluses on them

They are not soft like a baby’s hands that have never done a day of work in their life.

These calluses, scratches on our hands identify us as having working hands.

Illus: Did you hear about the two blondes who both bought horses.

• One of them said "How will we know which is yours and which is mine?"