The miracles of Jesus - Classical Christian Literature by Athleo.net

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TOUCHING THE BORDER
inward divine prompting.
Happy soul that promptly
obeys and finds at once the secret of the Lord !
III.
Faith always establishes contact between Christ
and the needy seeker.
Cure by Christ is cure by contact. " Touching
taps the secret stores of the universe. " Christ in
whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge
hidden" (Colossians ii.
"
3). It was the good pleasure
of the Father that in Him should all the fulness
dwell" (Colossians i. 19). The sweet influences of the
Pleiades, the richness of the grain, the virtue of the
herb, the aroma of the flower, the efficiency of air and
sea, the harmony of the spheres, and the glory of the
firmament, all come from Him, and in the spiritual
universe He lives, breathes, operates in all, and is
the
light and glory of heaven itself. It is contact with
Him by faith that unlocks the hidden store, that
causes the grace to flow and the love to bless. No
touch, then no cure. No contact, then no experience
of restoration or salvation. It was the touch of the
woman which brought the cure, because the touch
showed the simplicity and the implicitness of her
faith in the great Physician.
There is a wide difference between the touch of
and the touch of curiosity, or of criticism, or of
The woman's touch, into which was crowded
faith
unbelief.
the intense desire and confidence of an earnest soul.