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SOMEONE TO TOUCH Read: Luke 5:12–16 Bible in a Year: 2 Samuel 23–24; Luke 19:1–27 Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. Luke 5:13 Commuters on a Canadian Metro train witnessed a heart-moving conclusion to a tense moment. They watched as a 70-year old woman gently reached out and offered her hand to a young man whose loud voice and disturbing words were scaring other passengers. The lady’s kindness calmed the man who sank to the floor of the train with tears in his eyes. He said, “Thanks, Grandma,” stood up, and walked away. The woman later admitted to being afraid. But she said, “I’m a mother and he needed someone to touch.” While better judgment might have given her reason to keep her distance, she took a risk of love. Jesus understands such compassion. He didn’t side with the fears of unnerved onlookers when a desperate man, full of leprosy, showed up begging to be healed. Neither was He helpless as other religious leaders were—men who could only have condemned the man for bringing his leprosy into the village (Lev. 13:45–46). Instead, Jesus reached out to someone who probably hadn’t been touched by anyone for years, and healed him. Please help us to see ourselves in the merciful eyes of Your . Thankfully, for that man and for us, Jesus came to offer what no law could ever offer—the touch of His hand and heart. Father in heaven, please help us to see ourselves and one another in that desperate man—and in the merciful eyes of Your who reached out and touched him. No one is too troubled or unclean to be touched by Jesus. 
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 Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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But Jesus doesn't have a hand or heart.....he lives only in your imagination. Abracadabra 
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