The Pierced Hands of Jesus: Reflecting on His Holy Wounds
- Michael Ang
- Mar 27
- 2 min read
For the next few days, we will slow down and look closely at the suffering of Jesus. Not from a distance, not as a story we already know, but by entering into it, piece by piece.
We will reflect on the 5 wounds of Jesus (left hand, right hand, left foot, right foot, sacred side).
Today, we begin with His hands - Left and Right.
The same hands that once touched lepers and made them clean…
The same hands that lifted the broken, blessed children, and washed the feet of His disciples…
Those hands were stretched out and pierced.
They did not just hold Him in place. They silenced His movement.
Think about that.
The Son of God, through whom all things were made, is now unable to move His own hands. The hands that created, healed, and served were now fixed, immobilized, and surrendered.
This is not random suffering. This is deeply personal.
The wounds in His hands and wrists speak directly to the works of our hands. Everything we have done. Every action. Every misuse of freedom. Every moment we choose sin when we could have chosen love.
We often think sin is just internal. Thoughts. Desires. But sin becomes real through action. Through what our hands do. Through what we build, what we take, what we destroy.
And so Christ allows His hands to be pierced.
As if to say, “I take responsibility for what your hands have done.”
He does not defend Himself. He does not pull away. He does not resist.
He offers His hands. There is something even deeper here. These are not just any hands. These are hands of service. Hands that never harmed, never took, never misused power. Hands that only loved.
And yet, those are the hands that are pierced.
Love, nailed. Service, nailed. Goodness, nailed.
This is what sin does. It wounds what is good. It crushes what is pure. And Christ steps into that, willingly.
But the Cross is not just suffering. It is a victory.
The piercing of His hands also speaks of redemption. The curse of our works, the weight of our actions, the brokenness of what we have done with our lives, all of it is taken into those wounds.
His blood does not just cover sin. It cleanses it.
It reaches into the very things we have done and restores what we thought could never be restored.
Where our hands brought disorder, His hands bring reconciliation.
Where our hands built sin, His hands build salvation.
And now the question becomes personal.
What have my hands been doing?
Have they been instruments of love or of harm?
Have they built or broken?
Have they served or taken?
Do I offer my hands to God, or do I use them for myself?
Today, do not look away from His pierced hands.
Stay there because those hands were pierced for you.
And even now, they are still open.
God bless you.
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