For our final day this week, let’s look at a fascinating thought that you can find right at the end of your own fingers.

Of the thousands of questions about our bodies that scientists have answered, there is a certain mystery that has never been successfully resolved: our fingerprints. Why do we have them? What’s their biological purpose? Years of research have not produced a good answer.

While one study attempted to prove the purpose of fingerprints was to aid the grip of our fingers, another contradicted that study and concluded that the skin patterns actually reduce the contact area, making it harder to hold slick surfaces. Some scientists only believe that fingerprints exist to improve our sense of touch.

The only fact that all scientists agree on is that no two people’s fingerprints are the same—even those of identical twins. Throughout all of human creation, no repetition of fingerprints has ever been found, with every set being original.

Well, if science cannot figure out what fingerprints are for or their origin, but no two are the same, then the next major question is what or who placed them on us?

Consider this: What if God gave us our fingerprints, like the painter’s final brush strokes on the canvas, our Creator signing each of us with His customized one-of-a-kind signature?

What if God gave us fingerprints, making them unique to each person, simply to show us the great detail and care He takes in His creation?

Remember earlier this week when we read in Genesis where God said “let us make human beings in our image”? Our image? The Gospel of John gives us a better understanding of that statement in the very first verses.

In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. He existed in the beginning with God. God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him. The Word gave life to everything that was created, and his life brought light to everyone. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it. (John 1:1-5 NLT)

Christ, the One who was there with God, at your creation came to this earth and lived, died, and was resurrected for you—to offer you new life, God’s value, God’s worth, and His very life for you to live in and through Him. We pray you have received that gift. But until you have no breath left, it will never be too late to invite Jesus into your life.