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by Dennis Wheeler
Do you remember those times in your childhood when you wanted to reach something but you were too small and what you wanted was just out of your reach??!! I know for me it was the cookie jar that Florence Aldridge had made for my parents. It sat on the kitchen counter and was always filled with yummy cookies and snacks...but as a 5 year old I could not reach it even if I stood on my tip-toes!! I've grown up some now and the cookie jar doesn't quite seem to have the same appeal that it did 40+ years ago (well - maybe it does sometimes!!).
Honestly, one of the things I still yearn for is a tender hug from my mom. She's been gone for over 20 years, but oh how I would relish a warm embrace from her and to hear her contagious laugh.
Mark 5:21-34 tells of a woman who desperately needed a touch. She had suffered from a continuous blood flow for 12 years, and had literally exhausted every possible source of a cure. In that day, under the Jewish law, a woman's blood flow would make her unclean, and anyone that she touched would also be considered unclean for a day. I'm confident that for this very reason, she was most likely a person who had not experienced the touch of another for over a decade.
She was an outcast, and no one wanted to be around her. Yet, she suffered the insult and danger of appearing in a crowd of people because she knew that Jesus was there. "If I could only touch Him," she must have thought. And then, her fingertips brushed the fringe of His robe and she was healed...immediately...permanantly. Wow!!
Do you believe that a simple touch can be this powerful?
At this moment as you sit at your computer - pause, have a quite moment and would you please just close your eyes and with your heart reach up to Jesus. In His touch is the full power of God.
He serves as the Senior Pastor with southwest Virginia church... a loving church family in Abingdon.
He and his wife Sharon have been married for over 27 years and are the proud parents of two beautiful daughters, one son-in-law, and two precious grandchildren, the second arrived arrived on the scene in September 2004!!
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