This week the “love language” we’re considering in our series, “Loving like Jesus”, is “physical touch”. Physical touch is the most direct way for human beings to communicate care, companionship, love, family, friendship and fellowship with one another. Of course, physical touch can also be used to inflict great harm. So, as is the case with our words, it is essential that our physical contact with people be used in such a way as to be life-giving and not destructive.
Daily Reading: Matthew 9:18-26
In our reading today, a woman touched the fringe of Jesus’ garment while He was on His way to the home of a dead girl, and that brief moment of physical contact released sufficient power to heal twelve years of physical, social and spiritual suffering. Later, Jesus touched the dead girl, taking her by the hand and helping her up, and His touch brought her from death back to life. That was the power of Jesus’ touch. It was as though the power of God flowed into them through physical contact with the body of Jesus.
When praying for the healing of the sick by the laying on of hands, I usually picture in my mind’s eye (by faith) God’s power flowing through my body and out of my hands (as water through a hosepipe) into the other person’s body to touch their need. How wonderful it would be if our simple (and always appropriate) expressions of love to our fellow believers, friends and family were to be infused with the same healing, life-giving power as Jesus’ touch was for these two ladies.
May it be so today, Lord. Amen.
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