Touch of fiis Hand on Mine, in the practice of medicine, the touch of the hand has wonderful effects. A dear old gentleman, about 75, was suffering in tense pain. I went to his little cottage way out in the woods one miserable night. When I arrived, I saw the old gentleman lying in the parlor on his bed in the comer near a stove. I warmed my hands and then put my hand on his forehead, smoothing back his hair. I found out what his trouble was, took care of him, relieved his pain, and then I rubbed his forehead again. As I was leaving, he said, “Doc, I know I was going to get better when you came, for you touched me with your kind hand; that’s the first touch I’ve had for 25 years. You see, I live here with my daughter and her hus band and they don’t like me. They never have anything to do with me. When you put your kind hand on my forehead, I knew I was going to get better.” This is what our Lord did for others. Christ put clay on a man’s eyes, and when the man washed in Siloam’s pool he could see. The first thing he saw was the Lord Jesus. Let me ask you this question, “Has Christ ever touched your eyes with His marvelous,, precious, healing hand so that you would see something in the Saviour you had never seen before? Has it caused you to look up to Him and to cry out, ‘My Lord and my God’ ”? Or is it true of you like in Isaiah 53, “When we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.” Ask your heart (continued on next page)
I n G enesis 2:18 God said, It is not good that the man should be alone.” The Lord Jesus was the man, and this verse is almost the first mention of Him. “It is not good that the man should be alone.” There have been great men, politicians, military lead ers, statesmen, rulers and inventors, but none of them could be called the man. This is why Christ is called the Son of Man. Because it wasn’t good for Him to be alone, He took babies in His arms and held them to His heart. I believe heav en is full of babies. He also has fathers and mothers with Him as well as the aged ones. This is why we read in Psalm 116:15, “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.” Think of how the Lord touched a leper. It is the only case in the Bible (Matthew 8) where Jesus touched a leper. No one ever touched lepers. The lepers themselves, as well as the law, wouldn’t permit it. But here is One who is greater than the law. He came and told the leper as He .touched him, “Be thou clean.” Instantly the leprosy disappeared. The Lord did not con tract it. No disease, sin or evil could ever enter or defile Him in any way. He is holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners. The Lord want ed saved lepers to be with Him who could tell the angels and the hosts in heaven, “He touched me and some thing happened when He did. All earth’s powers and schemes could not help me, but He came. I received eternal life.” When Christ touches you, you will know it. We sing “The 9
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