And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it... upon the thumb of his right hand. Leviticus 14:14
We have given the hand to the Egyptians. Lamentations 5:6
EV 14:14{AM 5:6{It may seem an odd idea, but a simple glance at one's hand, with the recollection, "This hand is not mine; it has been given to Jesus, and it must be kept for Jesus," may sometimes turn the scale in a doubtful matter, and be a safeguard from certain temptations. With that thought fresh in your mind as you look at your hand, can you let it take up things which, to say the very least, are not for Jesus? things which evidently cannot be used, as they most certainly are not used, either for Him or by Him? Cards, for instance! Can you deliberately hold in it books of a kind which you know perfectly well, by sadly repeated experience, lead you farther from instead of nearer to Him? books which must and do fill your mind with those other things which, entering in, choke the Word? books which you would not care to read at all, if your heart were burning within you at the coming of His feet to bless you? Next time any temptation of this sort approaches, just look at your hand!
Just to ask Him what to do all the day,
And to make you quick and true to obey.
Just to know the needed grace He bestoweth,
Every bar of time and place overfloweth.
Just to take thy orders straight
From the Master's own command!
Blessed day! when thus we wait
Always at our Sovereign's hand.