The Hands Of Jesus

Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul.

Acts 19:11

After World War II, a group of German students volunteered to rebuild a severely damaged cathedral. A large statue of Jesus, with outstretched arms and the words “Come unto Me” inscribed on it, was missing both hands. Since it proved impossible to reattach the hands, they decided to leave them off. And they changed the inscription to read, “Christ has no hands but ours.”

The most well-known metaphor used by the apostle Paul for the followers of Jesus was “the body of Christ.” First, though Jesus’ literal body is absent from the earth, He is still ministering through the corporate body of His followers. Second, a body has many unique parts, which the New Testament writers compared to individual Christians. Some are ears, some are hands, some are feet—all working in harmony to do the work of Jesus in the world.

If you are a follower of Jesus, you have been given grace (a spiritual gift), through the Holy Spirit, to do something that Jesus would do if He were here personally. Through you, the hands of Jesus are ministering daily to others.

The person touched by Christ’s follower is being touched by Christ Himself.