Engraved! The following is an excerpt of a Spurgeon sermon that I copied from gracegems.org. I appreciate this wonderful website. A PRECIOUS DROP OF HONEY. No. 512 Fly back as far as you will, until this present world and all the worlds within the universe slept in the mind of God, like unborn forests in an acorn-cup, and even then you have not reached the time, before all time when it was first said—“I have engraved you upon the palms of my hands.” Isaiah 49:16 Before the young earth had burst her swaddling bands of mist, yes, before the globe had been begotten, or yonder sun had darted his infant arrows, or yon stars had opened their eyes, the Eternal had fixed his eye of love upon his favorites! God was always thinking of you; there was never a period when you were not in his mind and on his heart! "I have engraved you upon the palms of my hands.” Child of God, let your cheerful eyes and your joyful heart testify how great a wonder it is that you, once so vile, so hard of heart, so far estranged from God, are this day written on the palms of his hands! There is no sorrow to which our text is not an antidote! If you are a child of God, though your troubles have been as innumerable as the waves of the sea, this text, like the depths of the ocean, can contain them all. I care not this morning though you have lost everything, though you came here a penniless bankrupt beggar; so long as you have this text you are rich beyond a miser's dream! “I have engraved you upon the palms of my hands.”