From Fingerprints to Heartprints

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! Today is the day traditionally set aside to celebrate romantic love; however, it also encompasses the love we have for all those who are dear to us.

     I was just thinking about the traces we leave behind every day as our mark on the world—the unseen traces, that is.

If anyone wanted to find evidence of where we’ve been (excluding GPS or phone tracking), a forensics expert could easily track our activity by analyzing the fingerprints we leave on everything we touch.

     We don’t consciously think about the invisible marks we leave, probably as infrequently as we think about the approximately 23,040 breaths we take in every 24 hours. Imagine, though, what it would be like if your fingerprints showed up in red (or another color) on everything you touched? It would be quite a sight, wouldn’t it?

     Now, think about how amazing it is that our Creator gave every person a unique set of fingerprints, ones that cannot be matched to anyone else on this planet (even twins have different prints). If we were subject to being found, it wouldn’t be too difficult for authorities to find plenty of physical evidence from our “imprints.”

     But what if our hearts left a “print” every time we expressed love, care, sympathy, or concern for others? I like to think these would be called “Heart-prints.” If they showed up visibly (let’s say in red), imagine what our world would look like? And what would your own corner of the world look like?
We can only hope that our Heart-prints would be even more numerous than the fingerprints we leave behind each day. Picture a world stamped with Heart- prints—might it look like a giant Valentine?

     Speaking of the world, I cannot help but want to speak of our Creator, the Father above, the God of all Creation, our Counselor and Redeemer, who long ago set His fingerprint, His Heart-print, upon each of us. We have been marked as His Own, unseen evidence that we were created for Him, by Him, and we are loved by Him.  
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     May your Valentine’s Day be a Blessed one, and know that you are loved!
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John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world that He gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." 

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