Touched

In ancient times, leprosy was one of the worst diseases you could ever imagine. it ravaged the skin and caused permanent damage or even death.

Therefore those people with leprosy were considered unclean and forced to live apart from everyone else, isolated.

Being alone and untouchable, a leper lived with constant loneliness and pain.

This kind of disease is no longer common in today's living for cure are available, but still,

in the now era, we can still relate to the leper's feeling of being unwanted, unworthy and unaccepted. 

If leprosy in the bible is also intended to represent the ugliness of sin or loss,

every single one of us is affected.

There maybe certain areas in our lives in which we don't feel accepted.

A crisis, failure or temptation may come into our lives by choice or situations causing us to be in defeat and unworthy.

Before we know it, our hearts were being torn apart, relationship starts to shattered, dreams being torn apart.

And others keep their distance from us.

They do not know what to say or do.

Then we in return withdraw and nurse our wounds silently.

We may think they're better off without me.

Yet somewhere deep inside us a longing remains.

It is the first desire we could ever felt.

As newborns, we arrived the world craving for the touch of another human being. 

Only touch can secure us.

We yearn for a touch to our hearts that says,

"I see you as you are, and I choose to enter the messiness of your life. I love you enough to reach out to you, You are worth it."

I remember in the bible in Matthew or somewhere, a leper says to Jesus,

Lord if you are willing, can you make me clean?

Jesus didn't said anything, he just reach out his hands and touch the leper.

Being isolated for many years, probably someone is just longing for a touch.

I believe today,

Jesus still stretches out his hands and lays them on the messy, broken places of our hearts.

It was his touch that set me free and love for me.

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Those scars on your heart,

those sins and stains you hide,

they are not enough to keep Him away from you.

The One who washes your feet

washes your wounds too.

Can you feel His touch?

Its full of love and gentleness.

Healing what hurts,

mending what's broken.

He reaches out to you,

holds you and keeps you in His care.

Can you feel His touch?

It's always there.