The Touch of the Master’s Hand

I have been wanting to share with our people on a Sunday night some truths regarding the reaching out and just touching the greatness of the Word that God has made available, and how efficacious this Word really becomes to us in life.

The word “touch” is a very significant word used in the Word of God on a number of different occasions and in a number of different ways. But when I think of touching and reaching out for Christ and the answers to life, it’s an outreach. To touch is an outreach for aid. It’s an outreach for joy. It’s an outreach for peace. It’s an outreach to get the answers – to find out exactly where it is and how I can receive it.

I think of it also as a touch like a child reaching out for its mother. And you’ve seen it; you hold out your hand, the little child reaches out for it. Or you have the little child in your arms, and the child reaches out for whatever you’ve got in your other hand or something; sometimes for your glasses, and hair, and neckties, and a few other little things.

So tonight, we’re just going to spend a little time working the Word on the word “touched”; and in Hebrews, I want to begin. In Chapter 4, and in verse 12: