Did you know that your hands are not really yours at all, if you are a Christian? That's right, they are not yours at all!!
"It may seem an odd idea, but a simple glance at one's hands with the recollection, 'this hand is not mine; it has been given to Jesus, and it must be kept for Jesus,' may sometimes turn the scale in a doubtful matter and be a safeguard from certain temptations. With that thought fresh in your mind, as you look at your hand, can you let it take up things, which, to say the least,are not 'for Jesus'? Things which evidently cannot be used, as they most certainly are not used, either for him or by him. Can you deliberately hold in it books of a kind which you know perfectly well, by sadly repeated experience, lead you farther from, instead of nearer to him? ---- Books which you would not care to read at all if your heart were burning within you, at the coming of his feet? Next time any temptation of this sort approaches you, just look at your hand.
Danger and temptation to let the hands move at other impulses is every bit as great to those who have nothing to do but render service, and who think they are doing nothing else. Take one practical instance ---- our letter writing. Have we not been tempted (and fallen before the temptation), according to our various dispositions, to let the hand that holds the pen move or to say a clever and sarcastic thing which will make our point more telling; or to let out a grumble or a suspicion; or to let the pen run away with us into flippant words?
Perhaps one hardly needs to say that kept hands will be very gentle hands. Quick, angry motions of the heart will sometimes force themselves into expression by the hand, though the tongue may be restrained. The very way in which we close a door or lay down a book may be a victory or a defeat."
~as taken from Isabella Alden's "Profiles"~