From John 13
35By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
Poker players have their "tells." I just learned that researchers examined poker players in action. The researchers split up into three groups in their observation. The first group watched only the players' faces. The second group watched only the players' arms. The third group watched the players' whole body from the table up.
As it turns out, players are pretty good at using their expressions to hide the quality of their hand. There really is such a thing as a poker face! By only watching a face, they weren't able to predict how good the hand was.
Also, when watching the players' whole body, there tended to be too much information to sort through on the part of the observer.
But when observers zeroed in on the arms, it became fairly obvious the quality of the player's hand. Hands and arms can reveal a lot about the person. Who knew?
I hope that what we do with our hands and arms "tell" of our association with Jesus. I hope they tell we are followers of his. I hope that when Jesus looks around the world, he can point to us, notice that we love one another, and thus call us his disciples.
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