Who Touched Me?

One of the most remarkable things in the life of Christ is that He uninhibitedly touched people.

He touched the decaying flesh of lepers and bounced children on His knees. He touched the dead who were brought back to life. This is the same God centuries earlier who descended on a mountain wrapped in dark clouds, peals of ear splitting thunder and holy fire. No one was to approach the mountain or they would die (Exodus 19:12).

Now in human flesh the Son of God who is without sin touched fallen humanity.

But only a few people touched Him in the deepest way. Take the woman who had an issue of blood whose trembling finger tips reached for the hem of His garment. Her thread bare faith pulled His power out of Him so that she was healed. It says, "And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?" (Luke 8:45, KJV).

Peter's natural mind missed it. Jesus was not talking about the the crowds of people with their hands tightly pressed against Him, jostling and elbowing one another for God's healing touch. There is a touch that will always move the heart of God. Song of Solomon 4:9 tells us that God is ravished by a single glance at our eye. Beloved, when we touch His heart there follows a full revelation of His glorious face! We have captured His attention.

All it takes is a crumb of understanding God's mercy like the woman who pleaded for her daughter. Her response is remarkable after Jesus was silent only to describe children's bread being tossed to dogs (Matthew 15:21-28). She said, "Just one crumb from the Master's table - You are My Master - it will be enough for me! You are the Bread of Life. Not one crumb of Your bread though broken and tossed to the ground will ever lose it's power!"

We must press past the voices that try to lock us out of His Presence. Why would He heal you after what you did to your body? Don't you know God hates divorce so why are you asking Him to be remarried? You spend your money so foolishly so what makes you think He'll give you a promotion?

There was another woman who touched the heart of God. She passed through a room full of religious crust-harden men. She broke a box of costly perfume and poured it over Christ's head. There at His feet she wept and dried them with her hair. It says the glory of a woman is her hair (I Corinthians 11:5}. Her glory was fallen and ruined but she understood His glory was mercy (Matthew 9:13). The men hissed and vexed her by saying, "What waste!" Yes, the perfume was spilled out but her act became a memorial for all time where ever the gospel is preached.

Many want Jesus to touch their lives but few have truly touched Him. Beloved, take a moment with Jesus and rehearse His promises in His hearing. Faith in His promises in a God who is bound by His word to perform it since He can not lie will always moves His heart. This is the touch that causes the Lord to turn and say, "You touched Me."