Though I am not a Latent Print Examiner, I am the Marketing Director of a Christian based private forensics company. As such, I am exposed daily to the fascinating teachings and terminology of the Forensic Science discipline of fingerprints.
As I learn more about fingerprints and latent print examination, I am amazed at the unique and unchanging friction ridge skin God Himself placed on the hands and feet of every human being. Friction ridge skin is what creates fingerprint evidence. Latent Print Examiners use latent fingerprint evidence and compare it to potential suspects known prints. Fingerprints are used to catch and convict criminals or they can be used to free the falsely accused.
Fingerprints are a lot like people in many ways. They are created by God and unique in every way. Like fingerprints, no one person is exactly the same. As I learn more about the uniqueness and complexity of the fingerprint, I find it hard to deny God’s true intention of fingerprints; to be used by man for the good of man.
What about the fingerprints of God? When we look at our own lives and the world around us, we find physical evidence of God’s unseen touch, His latent fingerprints. He is the potter and we are His clay. We find the fingerprints of God in our own lives as He molds and shapes us to be more Christlike.
A French forensic pioneer named Dr. Edmond Locard once said “Physical evidence cannot be wrong, it cannot perjure itself, it cannot be wholly absent. Only human failure to find it, study and understand it, can diminish its value.” Dr. Locard was speaking to forensics, but I believe the same truth applies to God’s word.
Grab your bibles and a magnifier; let’s examine the scriptural evidence of God’s fingerprints together. Using scripture we can find and identify God’s fingerprints in the life of every believer. We can study them, gain a deeper understanding of them, and find great value in them.
God’s Hands Made Us: For it was you who created my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. (Psalm 139:13 CSB)
God’s Hands Uphold Us: Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, because the Lord supports him with his hand. (Psalm 37:24 CSB)
God’s Hands Empower Us: You have given me the shield of your salvation; your right hand upholds me, and your humility exalts me. (Psalm 18:35 CSB)
God’s Hands Bless Us: You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. (Psalm 23:5 CSB)
God’s Hands Fight For Us: Rise up, Lord! Save me, my God! You strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked. (Psalm 3:7 CSB)
God’s Hands Rescue Us: He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he pulled me out of deep water. (Psalm 18:16 CSB)
God’s Hands Guide Us: even there your hand will lead me; your right hand will hold on to me. (Psalm 139:10 CSB)
God’s Hands Hold Us: You have encircled me; you have placed your hand on me. (Psalm 139:5 CSB)
God’s Hands Comfort Us: he will destroy death forever. The Lord God will wipe away the tears from every face and remove his people’s disgrace from the whole earth, for the Lord has spoken. (Isaiah 25:8 CSB)
God’s Hands Heal Us: When the sun was setting, all those who had anyone sick with various diseases brought them to him. As he laid his hands on each one of them, he healed them. (Luke 4:40 CSB)
Through scripture, we find the life of every believer is covered with the fingerprints of God. We may not always see them, but by grace, they are there. Everything we are and everything we do, God is always there. He is continually holding us, guiding us, empowering us, fighting for us, and helping us as we make our way through life.
God created us in His image, He loves us, and He wants to bless us. He loved us so much that He gave His one and only Son, Jesus Christ, to die on a cross as a sacrifice for our sins. Because of Jesus, we may have forgiveness of sin and eternal life in the presence of God! AMEN
My hope is that, through these scriptures, you can easily identify the fingerprints of God in your own life. My prayer is that it strengthens your daily Christian walk, encourages obedience, and draws you closer to Jesus.
