the finger of God ...

One of Michelangelo's great paintings is of God creating humans. In the painting God is reaching our to touch the finger of a human body to give that person life. God, in the painting, looks like a grandpa figure with white hair and beard as he reaches toward the human. Brentwood UMC has a sculpture of the scene with just the hand of God and the hand of humanity seeking to touch each other.

I thought of those scenes when I read these words of Jesus:

"But if it is by the finger of God that I cast out the demons,

then the kingdom of God has come to you" (Luke 11:20)