Devotional for the week – Sunday, December 1, 2024
 
 
A GODLY TOUCH
Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man and said, “I will. Be healed!”.
Matthew 8:3
     Oh, the power of a godly touch.  Haven’t you known it?  The doctor who treated you, or the teacher who dried your tears?  Was there a hand holding yours at a funeral?  Another on your shoulder during a trial?  A handshake of welcome at a new Job?
     Can’t we offer the same?
     Many of you already do.  Some of you have the master touch of the Physician himself.  You use your hands to pray over the sick and minister to the weak.  If you aren’t touching them personally, your hands are writing letters, dialing phones, baking pies.  You have learned the power of a touch.
     But others of us tend to forget.  Our hearts are good; it’s just that our memories are bad.  We forget how significant our touch can be. 
     Aren’t we glad Jesus didn’t make the same mistake?
     
 
 
 
From Grace for the Moment (Vol.1) 
By Max Lucado