Hands: The Message of Hope

Psalms 39:7
"But now, Lord, what do I look for? My hope is in you.

Psalms 119:74
May those who fear you rejoice when they see me, for I have put my hope in your word.

Romans 12:12
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

Hebrews 3:6
But Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. And we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast.

This week I came across this anonymous character on YouTube who goes by the screen name of “MadV.” It is definitely a rip off of the movie, V for Vendetta, but what he has done is an original message of simplicity that people in the digital community have clung to and joined not just as observers but as followers. I believe his aim is to send a message of hope around the world that illustrates simple, powerful texts written on the palms of people’s hands in the context of the world we live in (often in our homes, dorm rooms, or apartments where our computers might be). I have heard this digital movement mentioned as several different things, one of them being “We’re all in this together.” If you watch the YouTube video below, I think you will be moved by the truth in the ordinary sayings written in palms of our own hands.

This week we are going on a journey not far from our home here in Auburn, Alabama. While I love writing on my blog for my Fab Five Fan Club, our underlying theme and motive of the week should be to bring hope in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. I often communicate with those in the Deaf Community using my hands for every contextual meaning one might say in the construction of language. The hands become symbols of language and symbols of communication all in one in a dualistic relationship unlike any spoken language can achieve. When hands are linked, there is a powerful feeling of togetherness, community, and relationship. Isn’t there?

In community outreach, we will love children with the hugs of hope and love, often holding hands with new bonds forming. In the construction zone, we will create, build, and repair as the Ancient Carpenter once did himself in order to make a living in the town of Nazareth. I write on this blog and create through photography with hands that God has blessed me to work with. Our hands communicate. Our hands orchestrate. Our hands shape God’s Will into action.

As we venture down south a few hundred miles, we must communicate the messages that this video resonates across the Web, but the most important of all these handwritten scripts is hope. God brings hope in fulfilling roles that a blog cannot visibly describe in word or photo. Our hope is in Him and His Word alone, and it is pivotal that those who feel they are sinking in a world of sin see the hope we have in our mission this week. We are sending a message of hope simply by going to serve, but we shall send a message of hope through Him that has eternal ramifications in the celebration of angel’s voices. As you work with the use of your hands, remember this: “we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast.” We are building upon His House in the lives that we seek to change. Our hands are not just a flab of skin, muscle, and bone. As humans, our hands send a powerful message that “we’re all in this together.” It is only fair to those around us that we boast of our unique and life-changing hope in the togetherness we have in relationship with Him.